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Joseph Ishill & the Oriole Press / by Marian C. Brown ; poem by Samuel Duff McCoy.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Oriole Press 32
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Marian C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ishill, Joseph.
- Oriole Press (Berkeley Heights, N.J.).
- Printing presses.
- Private presses.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kennerley.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [16] pages : mounted portrait ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Joseph Ishill and the Oriole Press
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley Heights, New Jersey : Published and printed by the Oriole Press, [1960]
- Notes:
- "Excerpts from letters to Joseph Ishill": Pages [13]-[15].
- Printed in green and black.
- "Joseph Ishill & the Oriole Press by Marian C. Brown was published in the 'Berkeley Heights Beacon', June 9, 1960; the introductory poem Scriptor Ignotus is by Samuel Duff McCoy; set by hand in Kennerley designed by Frederic W. Goudy; frontispiece is from a crayon drawing by O. H. Meier; the 2 colophons are from woodcuts made by Louis Moreau (France); printed on Strathmore Pastelle, ivory & cover on yellow Chroma. June, 1960"--Colophon.
- Printer's device ("THE ORIOLE PRESS JOSEPH ISHILL TYPOGRAPHER") in green at colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Contains:
- McCoy, Samuel Duff, 1882- Scriptor Ignotus.
- OCLC:
- 12674944
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