Bookmen's trio : ventures in literary philandering / by Walter Hart Blumenthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blumenthal, Walter Hart, 1883-1969.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Books and reading.

Love in literature.

Gastronomy--Bibliography.

Gastronomy.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Blumenthal, Walter Hart, 1883-1969 (autograph) (Blank Collection copy and Culture Class Collection copy)

Biddle, Alice (inscription) (Blank Collection copy)

Physical Description:

86 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Limited Edition.

Place of Publication:

Worcester, Massachusetts : Achille J. St. Onge, 1961.

Contents:

Flesh and Blood of Paper and Ink: lifelike characters that live only in books

Boudoir Books for Ladies-in-Waiting: lessons in love for the feminine pillow

Potluck and Peacocks' Tongues: potpourri of old cookbooks and odd foods.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Book collecting is the most excusable of all vices. Confirmed bookmen delight in books about books, in stray literary annals, even in dealers' catalogues ... Your booklover need not, indeed should not, pursue the straight and narrow path of devotion, wedded to one subject. He may dally with appealing topics apart from the bounds of his lasting allegiance. There is no penalty for such literary philandering. Fortunately it is permissible to stray to other alcoves and allurements. To the bibliophile such roaming is diversion in the true sense of the word."--Preamble.

"Five hundred copies of this book have been printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen/Haarlem/Holland."

White parchment spine lettered in gilt with blue, green and red marbled boards.

Local Notes:

Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Blank Collection copy inscribed to Alice Biddle by the author March 24, 1961.

Culture Class Collection copy has letter written in ms. by Walter Hart Blumenthal, dated 4/19/61 laid in.

OCLC:

270603106