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A key to the principal decorations in the Prayer book of King Edward VII. : as designed and carried out by C.R. Ashbee.
LIBRA Folio 263.3 C473 Key
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942.
- Ashbee, C. R.
- Essex House Press.
- Church of England. Book of common prayer.
- Church of England.
- Book of common prayer (Church of England).
- Illustration of books--England.
- Illustration of books.
- England.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Endeavour.
- Printed wrappers (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Norwood, Massachusetts : Printed at the Plimpton Press, A.D. MDCCCCIV [1904]
- Place of Publication:
- Published by royal warrant in London : by Eyre & Spottiswoode ... : and by the Essex House Press of the Guild of Handicraft ; and in New York ; and Montreal : by the Cambridge Society : and by M. Walter Dunne ... A.D. MDCCCCIV [1904]
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- "Published by royal warrant in London by Eyre & Spottiswoode, printers to His Majesty, and by the Essex House Press of the Guild of Handicraft, and in New York and Montreal by the Cambridge Society and by M. Walter Dunne. Printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts A.D. MDCCCCIV"--Colophon.
- "'Endeavour' type. Octavo."--Ashbee, The private press.
- Issued in paper wrappers; title and imprint within red-ruled borders on front wrapper; red silk marker; deckled edges, untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Rosenlund fund bookplate.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Ashbee, C.R. A bibliography of the Essex House Press, pages 20-21.
- Ashbee, C.R. The private press, page 74
- OCLC:
- 11990865
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