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Mockup of book with graphite and colored pencil tracings and shaded overlays [revise description] for book by Francine Jacobs, Coral (New York: Putnam, 1980), title pages and p. 47.

Francine Jacobs, Coral (New York: Putnam, 1980)

Named in honor of Robert Vosper, director of the University of Kansas Libraries from 1951 to 1960.

Named in honor of Robert Vosper, director of the University of Kansas Libraries from 1951 to 1960.

This block is from the only surviving series of original blocks representing the great folio woodcut-illustrated scientific books of the mid-sixteenth century. Shown with the block is its image as printed in T.J. Fitzpatrick's copy (exhibit 8) of the…