Acetaria : a discourse of sallets / by John Evelyn ; with an introduction by Kit Currie ; [illustrated by Tottoroto].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706, author.

Contributor:

Tottoroto, illustrator.

Caslon, William, 1693-1766, type designer.

Still Point Press, publisher.

Bird & Bull Press, printer.

Mackenzie-Harris Corporation, typographer.

Gray Parrot, Inc., binder.

Arjomari Prioux S.A., papermaker.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vegetables.

Herbs.

Salad greens.

Salads.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Mould-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Case bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Autographs (Provenance)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Whaley, Charlotte, 1925- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Morris, Henry, 1925-2019 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

149 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, 1 facsimile ; 25 cm

Edition:

First illustrated limited edition.

Manufacture:

Newtown, Pa. : Printed at the Bird & Bull Press.

Place of Publication:

Dallas : Still Point Press, 1985.

Notes:

"Acetaria: a discourse of sallets was first published in 1699 by B. Tooke, London. This is the first illustrated limited edition of the work."--Verso of title leaf.

"Three hundred copies of this book have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press at Newtown, Pa., in October, 1985. The book was composed in Caslon types by Mackenzie-Harris Corp., printed on mouldmade Arches text paper, and bound by Gray Parrot, Inc. This is copy [blank] Illustrated by Tottoroto"--Colophon.

"The table is a sheet printed on one side, folded at both shorter edges, inserted and counted as pages [79]-[82]"--Heaney.

Binding: gold-ruled quarter brown morocco over decorated paper boards; gold-stamped green leather spine label ("LONDON 1699 JOHN EVELYN ACETARIA DALLAS 1985"); deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Kislak Center copy is number 5.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is numbered "Printer's Copy 'E'" in pencil at colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in 2 typescript letters on letterhead of Still Point Press from Charlotte Whaley to Henry Morris, one dated 24 March 1986 and one 26 March 1987.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has printed description of this edition by Charlotte Franklin from Private library 10.2 (Summer 1987) (citation supplied in manuscript in pencil) laid in.

Cited in:

Heaney, H.J. Thirty years of Bird & Bull, B34 (page 80)

ISBN:

0933841019

9780933841017

OCLC:

12161073