《美国木材》是罗曼•贝克•霍夫（Romeyn Beck Hough）在1888年至1913年之间收集而成的一本书，一直是一项令人惊叹且无与伦比的成就。这本书最初发行了14卷，包含裱贴在卡片纸上的真实标本。它是一部美得令人叹为观止的作品，为研究书和木材设立了标准。《木材之书》煞费苦心地对原书的所有标本页进行了复制；为了达到这个目的，TASCHEN购买了一套非常罕见的原书，这套书品相极好，并且对木材切口的损害最小。

每棵树按字母顺序排列，用三种不同的木材横切面切开（辐式的，水平的和正切的），展示了纹理的特殊特性以及在许多不同的木材中可以找到的大量颜色和纹理类型。

这个特别版中还包括查尔斯•斯普拉格•萨金特（Charles Sprague Sargent）为大部分树的叶子和果实创作的石版画，以及说明每棵树的地理起源和物理特征的文字。

Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods―originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card stock―is a work of breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for the study of trees and wood.The Woodbook reproduces, in painstaking facsimile, all of the specimen pages from the original volumes; for this purpose, TASCHEN obtained an extremely rare original set of volumes in very good condition, with minimal damage to the wood cuts.

Arranged in alphabetical order, each tree is broken down into three different cross-section cuts of wood (radial, horizontal, and tangential), demonstrating the particular characteristics of the grain and the wealth of colors and textures to be found among the many different wood types.

Also included in this special edition are lithographs by Charles Sprague Sargent of the leaves and nuts of most trees, as well as texts explaining each tree’s geographical origins and physical characteristics.