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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.
Contributor:
Adelman, Seymour, 1906-1985, writer of introduction.
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019, book designer, printer.
Bryn Mawr College. Library, publisher.
Bird & Bull Press, printer.
Harrison Color Process Company, printer.
Murphy Parker Company, binder.
Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
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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