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A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens ; illustrated by Chris Burke.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1496
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z239.I53 D5 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scrooge, Ebenezer--Fiction.
- Scrooge, Ebenezer.
- Misers--England--London--Fiction.
- Misers.
- Poor families--England--London--Fiction.
- Poor families.
- Small press books--Specimens.
- Small press books.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- rare books.
- Fiction
- Illustrated works
- Specimens
- Illustrated works.
- Artists' books.
- Insertions (Provenance)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bell.
- Magnani (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 53 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oldham [England] : Incline Press, [2005]
- Notes:
- "The plates were printed by Northends of Sheffield."--Colophon.
- "The paper is our own making of Magnani, supplied by John Purcell Paper. The text typeface is 11pt Bell, and was cast by Harry MacIntosh of Speedspools in Edinburgh. Nineteenth Century wooden type ornament has been used to print Marley's chains for the decorated paper on the binding, and the line of printer's flowers at the heads of the pages were cast at the now defunct foundry of Stephenson Blake, Sheffield."--Colophon.
- "Eight books have been specially bound, each with an original illustration. The balance of the edition of two hundred copies has been hand bound in the workshop of Stephen Conway at Bradford."--Colophon.
- Illustrated with mounted plates in color and monochrome.
- Local Notes:
- Hand bound, red cloth-backed patterned boards, with design based on Marley's chains in red and light green; issued in matching slipcase.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Kislak has copy no. 3.
- 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 is number 122.
- OCLC:
- 62978980
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