QUARTET ESSAYS BY ... ETCHINGS BY JOSEPH GOLDYNE de Thomas, Lewis, and Joseph Godyne [ illustrator] - 1986

San Francisco & Berkeley: Pacific Editions and the Arif Press, 1986. Quarto. Half morocco and decorated boards by Klaus-Ulrich S. Rötzcher. Illustrated with four original etchings, printed in colors. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in folding cloth clamshell box. First edition in this format. Introduction by Dr. Carl Djerassi. One of 165 numbered copies designed, handset in Bembo and Centaur types and printed on handmade paper by Wesley Tanner. The paper was commissioned for the edition from Twinrocker Papermill. The etchings incorporate a variety of graphic techniques, including aquatint, spitbite, drypoint, and hard and soft ground methods. They were printed by Robert Townsend Inc., and each etching is signed in the margin by the artist. Accompanied by a separate impression of a fifth etching, also signed by the artist and enclosed in a matching folder, as well as by a catalogue for an exhibition devoted to the production of this book mounted under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences. The four essays here printed were selected from Thomas's books, including THE LIVES OF A CELL and THE MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL. The first publication under the Pacific Editions imprint, and a splendid collaborative exploration of humanistic themes by two physicians.