Conyers Read, 1881-1959, scholar, teacher, public servant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Read, Conyers, 1881-1959.

Read, Conyers.

United States--Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Van Dijck.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy 30.

Crown & Sceptre (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Brown, W. Norman (donor) (autograph) (RBC copy)

Read, Conyers, Mrs. (donor) (Furness copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

52 pages : portrait ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

Fairfax, Calif. : Mallette and Vivian Dean

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1963

Contents:

Langer, W. L. / Conyers Read, public servant

Neale, J. E. / Conyers Read, scholar

Downs, N. / Conyers Read, teacher

Read, C. / Freedom and a piece of string.

Notes:

"245 copies of this tribute ... have been designed, printed and bound by Mallette and Vivien Dean. The paper is handmade Crown and Septre [sic] printed damp. The types are hand-set Van Dijck with Goudy 30 for display. Fairfax, California 1963."

Bibliography of Read's works: pages 49-50.

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.

OCLC:

4463020