William Caxton : (the first English printer) / by Holbrook Jackson ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948, author.

Contributor:

Ishill, Joseph, typographer.

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer.

Roos, S. H. de (Sjoerd Hendrik), 1877-1962, type designer.

Oriole Press (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), publisher, printer.

S.D. Warren Company, papermaker.

Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne, papermaker.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.

Caxton, William.

Printers--England.

Printers.

Publishers and publishing--England.

Publishers and publishing.

Printing.

England.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kennerley Old Style.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Libra.

Biographies.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Huss, Richard E. (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

21, [1] pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey : Published & printed privately by the Oriole Press, [1959]

Notes:

Publication date from colophon.

"William Caxton (the first English printer) by Holbrook Jackson was handset throughout in Kennerley Old Style & Libra. 200 copies were printed on Warren Olde Style paper & 20 copies on Renker Text for private distribution. Copy number [blank] Summer, 1959"--Colophon.

Printed in black and red.

Printer's device ("THE ORIOLE PRESS JOSEPH ISHILL TYPOGRAPHER") in red at colophon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 28.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 183 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 200 copies. See colophon.

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 armorial bookplate ("Richard E Huss His BOOK Number 1170-2") with book number supplied in manuscript in ink and pencil on front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in full green cloth(?); title and author's name stamped in gold on spine; pale green endpapers; original wrappers bound in.

OCLC:

3499273