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On going to church : being the preachment which treats of church-going, art, and some other themes / by George Bernard Shaw.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 115
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Religion.
- Shaw, Bernard.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Political and social views.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Church--Holiness.
- Church.
- Spirituality.
- Spiritual life--Christianity.
- Spiritual life.
- Church attendance.
- Political and social views.
- Religion.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Johnston, William A. (autograph) (Roycroft 115)
- Physical Description:
- 1 unnumbered leaf, 40 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Shop, 1896.
- Notes:
- The body of text is printed in Old Style Antiqua. There were at least 420 copies printed on Dickinson Dekel-edge paper and bound in paper over boards with a white buckram spine. Twenty-five copies were printed on Tokyo Vellum and decorated with watercolors by Bertha Hubbard. There are at least five to six variants of this book.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- One variant of this book has title This is the preachment: on going to church / writ by ...
- "So here endeth The preachment On going to church by George Bernard Shaw as done into a book by me, Elbert Hubbard, at the Roycroft Shop that is in East Aurora, N.Y., U.S.A."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.
- Roycroft 114 is bound on gray boards, white cloth spine, printed on laid paper. First line of title page in red: On going to church. Triangular colophon in red.
- Roycroft 115 is bound on gray boards, white cloth spine, printed on laid paper. First line of title page in black : This is the preachment. Rectangular colophon in red.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 6
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-004-96
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. On going to church.
- OCLC:
- 54154764
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