Abundant bibliophiles : Hubbard Winslow Bryant on the private libraries of Portland, 1863-1864 / Roger E. Stoddard ; preface by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot)

Contributor:

• Bryant, Hubbard Winslow, 1839-1917.
• Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr., 1948-
• Wolfe Editions.
• Baxter Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Bryant, Hubbard Winslow, 1839-1917.
• Book collecting--Maine--Portland--History--19th century.
• Private libraries--Maine--Portland--History--19th century.
• Books and reading--Maine--Portland--History--19th century.
• Bibliomania--Maine--Portland--19th century.
• Bibliomania.
• Books and reading.
• History.
• Private libraries.
• Book collecting.
• Maine--Portland.

Physical Description:

74 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland : Baxter Society, 2004.

Notes:

• "Abundant bibliophiles has been designed, typeset and printed by David Wolfe at Wolfe Editions, Portland, Maine. The paper used is Mohawk Superfine and the press work was accomplished on a Heidelberg platen press. The typeface is Monotype Janson designed by Miklos Kis (1650-1702) and adapted for the Monotype casting machine by Sol Hess. Two hundred and thirty copies printed, of which thirty have been bound for benefactors by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine, and signed by the author"--Colophon.
• Includes and expands on excerpts from the author's Nancy Cowan Lecture to the Baxter Society, Portland, 8 May 2002, with reprints of notices about private libraries in Portland, Me., by Hubbard Winslow Bryant that appeared in the Portland daily press, 1863-1864.
• "Twentieth anniversary".

ISBN:

0974687804

OCLC:

57180424