Leonard Baskin's Miniature natural history: First series

First Series. Four Volumes. Includes: 1. Seven Fish, ONE Crab, ONE Lobster, ONE Octopus; 2. Insects; 3. Domestic Animals; 4. Extinct Creatures (First Series) Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 - June 3, 2000) was an important American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated "Sculptor" to Leonard Baskin. It was the penultimate poem in The Colossus (1960).