Title and imprint from colophon, laid in.
"Retold by M. Charlotte Johnson"--T.p. to each part.
Sizes of the individual volumes vary; in box with a coconut shell face inlaid in the cover board.
"Four designer-artist teams were invited to the press to create distinct editions from the same manuscript ... The sets of four books are contained in boxes designed by Greg Campbell and constructed at The Campbell-Logan bindery ... [There are] seventy boxed suites"--Colophon.
Each book contains the text of a Polynesian folk-tale interpreted through different handling of papers, bindings and illustrative techniques.
V. 1 designed by Robert Tauber, illustrated by Margaret Prentice; v. 2 designed by Richard Brunell, illustrated by Sidney Chafetz; v. 3 designed by Ruth Leonard, illustrated by David Macaulay; v. 4 designed by Rod Johnson, illustrated by Eric May.
Vols. 1 and 2 have title: Inangaro, a Polynesian folktale of love lost.