Free vistas; an anthology of life & letters / edited and printed by Joseph Ishill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ishill, Joseph, editor.

Oriole Press.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing, Hand.

Wood-engraving.

Penn Provenance:

Hansen, Harry (inscription) (Culture Class Collection Copy)

Ishill, Joseph (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8, that is, 7 (1) page, 4 unnumbered pages, 11-28 pages, 29-32 f., 33-374 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations (part mounted), facsimile ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U. S. A. : Published privately at the Oriole Press, 1933.

Contents:

Literary contents

- A miscellaneous group of poems

Art contents.

Notes:

Title page illustrated in green and printed in orange and green.

Pages 3-9 inserted before p. 1-[2].

Printed with a variety of types on paper of various colors, kinds and sizes.

The facsimile, following p. 278, is of an A.L.S. from Romain Rolland to the editor, March 4, 1928.

"Edition limited to two-hundred-and-ninety copies printed on miscellaneous papers of which number two-hundred are for sale."

"Here we bring to a close the first anthology of 'Free Vistas' for nineteen-thirty-three; published and printed at our private press, through the editor's own efforts from the hand-setting & print of the first page to the last. We ask pardon of those interested in typography proper for omitting the technical description of the make-up of this book. The variety of types and papers are of a miscellaneous character which would require much additional space to properly describe. The Oriole Press, Joseph Ishill typographer."

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For Harry Hansen with the compliments of Joseph Ishill. June, 1933".

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 62.

OCLC:

17472469