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La Comédie Humaine / Honoré de Balzac.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Zinman 60
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
- Dummies (Bookselling).
- Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Bookbinding--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Publisher's sample book].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : George Barrie, [1895]
- Notes:
- Publisher's sample book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations.
- Binding: Leather binding, with one cloth spine sample mounted to rear pastedown.
- Copyright 1895 by George Barrie.
- "Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie, Philadelphia" on title page.
- "Edition Definitive/ of which there are printed on imperial Japan/ paper one thousand copies" printed on verso of half-title.
- Local Notes:
- Zinman 60 has "Specimen." ink-stamped on initial leaves.
- Cited in:
- Arbour, K. Canvassing books, 60
- OCLC:
- 911214848
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