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A bibliography of the Village Press / by Melbert B. Cary, Jr. ; including an account of the genesis of the press by Frederic W. Goudy and a portion of the 1903 diary of Will Ransom, co-founder.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941, author.
- Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, author.
- Ransom, Will, 1878-1955, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Village Press.
- Village Press--Bibliography.
- National Book Committee.
- Private presses--New York (State)--New York--Bibliography.
- Private presses.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Printing.
- History.
- United States.
- Printing--United States--History--19th century.
- Printing--United States--History--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Imprints.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York.
- Local Subjects:
- Village Press.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 205 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Books : Edward Ripley-Duggan : Nicholas T. Smith, Publisher, 1981, 1956.
- Notes:
- At head of title: 1903-1938.
- "Republished in 1981 with the permission of Yale University. This edition is reproduced from an original in the Yale University Library."--Title page verso.
- "Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso.
- "Copyright © 1956 by Melbert B. Cary"--verso of title page.
- "Set by hand in Tory and 14 point Village No. 2 by George W. Van Vechten, Jr., and illustrated with eight collotype reproductions, this book has been printed in an edition of 260 copies on Strathmore Permanent Book and completed in the month of April, 1938."--Page [212], reprint of 1938 edition colophon.
- "Printed at The Town House Press Spring Valley, New York MCMLXXXI"--Colophon.
- "Jacket design by Cordell Stevens"--Book jacket front flap.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck copy has dustjacket.
- ISBN:
- 0938768050
- 9780938768050
- 0960653201
- 9780960653201
- 0935164081
- 9780935164084
- OCLC:
- 269848804
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