"The Conquest and Settlement of the Island of Boriquen or Puerto Rico" by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, in its first English translation by E. Daymond Turner for The Limited Editions Club, is accompanied by an introduction and notes by Dr. Turner. To illustrate the edition, Jack and Irene Delano of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, have created eight full-page four-color serigraphs and thirty part-page line drawings. Pava Prints of San Juan silk-screened the serigraphs from the originals.

Designed by Irene Delano, the volume features Garamond type throughout—the text in fourteen-point italic with three points of leading, and the introduction and display lines in various sizes of roman. The chapter initials, three lines deep, are printed in scarlet. The page size is 7.25 x 12 inches, totaling 192 pages. The Stinehour Press of Lunenburg, Vermont, printed the text on Arak, a cream-white, antique-finish rag stock specially made for this edition at the Curtis mill in Newark, Delaware.

The three-piece binding comprises a shelfback of imported natural vellum and boards covered with scarlet buckram. The spine titling and the front emblem are stamped in pure gold leaf.