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A dog of war / by John Taylor, the Water poet ; with hand-coloured engravings on wood by Hester Sainsbury.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1625
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR2382 .D6 1927
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, John, 1580-1653, author.
- Series:
- Haslewood books
- The Haslewood books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dogs--Poetry.
- Dogs.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Manufacture:
- England : Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frederick Etchells & Hhugh Macdonald, MCMXXVII [1927].
- Notes:
- "Of this edition ... printed on all-rag paper, 375 numbered copies have been issued."
- The text is from the Bodleian library copy of the first edition, published probably in 1628. A prose argument and a dissertation at the end of the poem have been omitted. cf. "Note" signed H. M. [i.e. Hugh Macdonald]
- Local Notes:
- Kislak has number 115.
- 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 number 54. Has dust jacket and protective wrapper.
- OCLC:
- 4760857
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