William "King" Solomon, 1775-1854 / by Burton Milward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milward, Burton, 1943- author.

Contributor:

Zeitz, Gray, book design, printer.

Whitesel, Carolyn, binder.

Friedman, Julius, printer.

Leggett, Albert, photographer.

Price, Samuel Woodson, 1828-1918, artist.

Larkspur Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solomon, William, 1775-1854.

Solomon, William.

Lexington (Ky.)--History.

Lexington (Ky.).

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Emerson.

Mohawk (Paper).

Iyo (Paper).

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 32 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color illustration ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Monterey, Ky. : Larkspur Press, 1990.

Notes:

"This chapbook was first published by the King Library Press at the University of Kentucky in a limited edition."; title page verso.

"Handset in Emerson type and printed on a hand-fed C & P. Of the 526 copies: 500 are printed on Mohawk paper & hard bound; 26 are printed on Iyo paper & bound by Carolyn Whitesel. Julius Friedman oversaw the printing of the photograph of Old 'King' Solomon taken by Albert Leggett from a portrait by Samuel Woodson Price ... Design, composition & presswork is by Gray Zeitz ... at Larkspur Press..."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center library has copy 323.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection copy retains dust jacket. It is copy 402.

OCLC:

22448260