The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design Book by Hugh and Marguerite Stix and R. Tucker Abbott 1968

The Shell, Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design by Hugh and Marguerite Stix, and R. Tucker Abbott, photographs by H. Landshoff. Published by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1968. Printed and bound in Japan. “SEA SHELLS HAVE ENCHANTED MANKIND, apparently, as far back as human records go. Their variety of shape, color, structure, texture, and modes of adaptation seems inexhaustible. Small wonder that people have always found pleasure in owning them, and artists and craftsmen have incorporatéd