“THE BIRDS AND TREES OF NORTH AMERICA” EDITION
Our 64th Quarterly Limited Edition for fall, 2024 is “The Birds and Trees of North America” Edition, featuring the artwork of Rex Brasher (1869–1960).
Rex Brasher’s artistic talent, love of nature, technical expertise, and persistence offer an inspiring story that should be better known by anyone with an interest in birds, nature, or art. From a young age, Brasher committed to visiting all of America’s bird species in their natural habitats. He spent a lifetime traveling, collecting notes and drawings, writing personal, insightful descriptions, and painting and re-painting birds.
By the late 1920s, Brasher — nearly 60 years old — was finally satisfied with his paintings, and set out to publish a collection of his work. Unhappy with color printing options at the time, Brasher had the paintings reproduced in black-and white, then hand-colored all 87,000 pages of the nearly 100 sets of twelve volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America, which he completed in 1932.
We’ve carefully reproduced six of Brasher’s colorful illustrations on two 3-Packs of Field Notes Ruled Memo Books. Covers are a lovely felt-textured 100#C Mohawk Via “Pure White,” bound by three stainless steel staples. The bodies are 60#T Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra, ruled with pale gray lines.
SPECIFICATIONS:
- 01. Images courtesy of Rex Brasher Association, Inc. ©2024, rexbrasher.org
- 02. Proudly printed by the good people of Classic Color, Broadview, Ill.
- 03. Cover: Mohawk Via Felt 100#C “Pure White,” with a 4-color application of process-color soy-based inks.
- 04. Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra 60#T “White.”
- 05. Cover and innards printed on a Komori Lithrone G40″ 6-color UV printing press.
- 06. Bound by a Muller Martini Presto II saddle stitcher with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
- 07. Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8″ (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge round-corner machine.
- 08. Ruled lines: 1/4″ (6.4mm).
- 09. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2″ × 5-1/2″ (89mm × 140mm).
- 10. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
- 11. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
- 12. Limited Edition of 18,000 Pack A and 18,000 Pack B.
“Pack A” features:
Rocky Mountain and Mexican Screech Owls
(1915, Volume 6, Plate 373e 373f)
Blue Jay
(1911, Volume 8, Plate 477)
Brewer Sparrow
(1912, Volume 9, Plate 562)
“Pack B” features:
Pine Grosbeak
(1911, Volume 9, Plate 515)
Baltimore Oriole
(1912, Volume 8, Plate 507)
Sulphurbelly Flycatcher
(1911, Volume 7, Plate 451)
