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An elaborate publication created to help promote Canada's call for international protection of the salmon at the 1974 United Nations Law of the Sea conference in Caracas, Venezuela.
Description: Atlas folio box (20 x 25 inches) containing 21 plates in five porfolios loose as issued, and a copy of The Salmon by Roderick Haig-Brown (9 x 12 inches, 79 pages) profusely illustrated with color photographs. The five portfolios (each 18 x 24 inches) are: "The Ceremony of the First Salmon" (drawings and research by Hilary Stewart, six pages of text and drawings); "The Salmon: Canada's Plea for a Threatened Species" (six pages of text and small reproductions of the prints to follow); "The Legacy" (five silkscreen prints by Bill Reid); "The Atlantic" (five reproductions of 19th-century chromolithographs of salmon by A.F. Lydon and J. Stewart); "The Pacific" (five gouache paintings by David Denbigh); and "The Cycle" (five watercolors by Rudi Kovach of salmon in the Adams River).
Copies were issued in a cloth-covered portfolio, or more elaborate box constructed with oak sides and cloth-covered boards. Both formats featured a replica of Bill Reid's sculpture "Haida Salmon" inset to the front board (simulated argilite on most copies copies, silver on deluxe copies). Both formats issued in a large silver paper slipcase.
Notes: Cataloguing the various states of this production is a messy, and to this day uncompleted effort (it was definitely not the 1,800 plus 200 deluxe stated in Reid's Leaves). Copies of the Haig-Brown book were issued in full leather, quarter leather with marbled paper sides, and cloth. A small number of the boxes featured the inlaid Bill Reid replica in silver. Based on the extensive research contained in Robert Cave's excellent Roderick Haig-Brown - A Descriptive Bibliography (privately published by Cave in 2000), the number of full-bound copies of the book totals around dozen; quarter bound copies total around 60, and the balance of the portfolios were issued with the cloth-bound issue. A total of about 1,000 copies of the portfolio were assembled. Copies of the book were also issued independently of the portfolio, and French and Spanish versions of the book were also published (each in at least two states).
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