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Robert the Devil : translated by W.S. Merwin from an anonymous French play of the XIV century with wood-engravings by Roxanne Sexauer.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1881
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PQ1348 .R713 1981 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Miracle de Notre Dame de Robert le Diable. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Drama.
- Mary.
- Robert I, Duke of Normandy, approximately 1010-1035--Drama.
- Robert.
- Robert the Devil--Drama.
- Robert the Devil.
- Normandy (France)--History--To 1515--Drama.
- Normandy (France).
- Mysteries and miracle-plays, French.
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Robert I, Duke of Normandy, approximately 1010-1035.
- France--Normandy.
- Genre:
- mystery plays.
- Mystery and miracle plays
- History
- Drama
- Woodcuts -- United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City -- 1981-1990.
- Drama.
- Mystery and miracle plays.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Dante.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo Italic.
- Windhover (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 44, [2] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : The Windhover Press at the University of Iowa, MCMLXXXI [1981]
- Language Note:
- Translation of: Miracle de Notre Dame de Robert le Diable.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Miracle de Notre Dame de Robert le Diable.
- "Three hundred and ten copies of this play were printed at The Windhover Press between the fall and winter of 1979. Thirty-five are numbered and signed by the artist, who has colored the engravings in these copies. The text types are Dante and Bembo Italic, and the paper is handmade Windhover. The case-binding was done by The Black Oak Bindery"--Colophon.
- "Three hundred and ten copies of this play were printed at The Windhover Press between the fall of 1979 and summer of 1981. 50 numbered copies have been signed by the artist, who has colored the engravings in these copies, and by the translator"--Colophon as corrected by erratum slip.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is signed by the translator in an inscription dated 'New York City June 1982".
- 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 has protective wrapper.
- OCLC:
- 9731146
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