The Vollbehr incunabula and the Book of books / address by Frederick W. Ashley, chief assistant librarian of the Library of Congress, before the Eleventh national conference on printing education at a session held in the Library of Congress auditorium. Washington, District of Columbia, on the twenty-seventh day of June, anno Domini nineteen hundred and thirty-two.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashley, Frederick William, 1863-1942.

Contributor:

Carter, George Henry, 1874-

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incunabula--Washington (D.C.)--Bibliography.

Incunabula.

Washington (D.C.).

Bible--Latin--Vulgate--1454.

Bible.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

19 unnumbered pages : frontispieces [including portrait] ; 34 x 27 cm

Place of Publication:

[Washington] : [U.S. Govt print. off.], [1932]

Notes:

Colophon: Designed and printed by George Henry Carter...public printer of the United States of America... to the number of four hundred and twenty copies bound in parchment, impressed on handmade paper with Closter types in two columns of forty-two lines each and illuminated with handmade initial letters smiliar to the Gutenberg Bible in the Library of Congress...MCMXXXII. This copy is no 192.

Title within ornamental border: vignette: tall piece.

OCLC:

1819589