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A book of simple toys : a facsimile / Claud Lovat Fraser ; with an introduction by Seymour Adelman.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Bird & Bull Press 74
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PZ5 .F775 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toys.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Facsimiles (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Aresty, Esther B. (donor) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy 2)
- Aresty, Jules (inscription) (Kislak Center copy 2)
- Adelman, Seymour, 1906-1985r (autograph) (Kislak Center copy 2)
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages, 74 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- North Hills, Pa. : Printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania : Bryn Mawr College Library, 1982.
- Notes:
- "One thousand copies of this book have been designed & printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press in North Hills, Pa. The color printing was done by Harrison Color Process Company and the binding by the Murphy Parker Company"--Colophon.
- A facsimile of Fraser's sketchbook, dated 1917.
- Binding: "Cloth with title on printed paper label on front cover as well as stamped in gilt on spine."--Heaney.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Heaney, H.J. Thirty years of Bird & Bull, B29 (pages 76-77)
- OCLC:
- 13626970
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