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The making of the Book of common prayer of 1928 / by Martin Hutner ; accompanied by an original leaf printed on vellum at the Merrymount Press.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Yarnall Collection Folio 46
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutner, Martin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Episcopal Church. Book of common prayer (1928).
- Episcopal Church.
- Merrymount Press.
- Book of common prayer (Episcopal Church : 1928).
- Merrymount Press--History--20th century.
- Printing--United States--History--20th century.
- Printing.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Vellum printings (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Ehrhardt.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Slipcases (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Leaf books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, [2], 75, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates, 24 pages of plates : 24 facsimiles (some color) ; 36 cm
- Manufacture:
- [New York] : printed ... at A. Colish, Inc.
- Place of Publication:
- [Southbury, Connecticut] : Chiswick Book Shop, 1990.
- Notes:
- In slipcase, as issued. Deckled edges, with untrimmed fore-edges.
- The Merrymount Press Standard edition of the 1928 Prayer book was printed in Boston in 1930; the accompanying leaf is from an incomplete copy printed on vellum, of which there were 12.
- "285 copies of this book have been printed in Monotype Ehrhardt and Janson at A. Colish, Inc. Typography by Jerry Kelly."--Colophon.
- "Accompanied by an original leaf printed on vellum at the Merrymount Press"--Title page.
- Title in red and black
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-75).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: original leaf printed on vellum at the Merrymount Press for the Book of common prayer is pages 477-478.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.
- OCLC:
- 23137977
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