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.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hutner, Martin, author.

Contributor:

• Kelly, Jerry, 1955- typographer.
• Chiswick Book Shop, publisher.
• A. Colish (Firm), printer.
• Merrymount Press, printer of leaf.
• Monotype Corporation, type designer.
• Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
• Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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