The song of songs : being love lyrics from ancient Palestine / translated by Morris Jastrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jastrow, Helen Bachman, writer of preface.

Cumont, Franz, 1868-1947, writer of introduction.

Grabhorn, Edwin E., printer.

Grabhorn, Robert, printer.

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer.

Sinel, Joseph, 1890-1975, designer.

Von Schmidt, Harold, 1893-1982, designer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Whatman plc, papermaker.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Song of Solomon. English. Jastrow. 1922.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921 translator.

Jastrow, Morris.

Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921.

California--Imprints.

California.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Antique.

Case bindings (Binding)

Silk ties (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Poems.

Translations.

Autographs (Provenance)

Bookplates (Provenance)

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Grabhorn, Edwin E. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Grabhorn, Robert (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

McDonald, James (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

38 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

[San Francisco] : Printed ... by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, in November 1922.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Printed for the author, MCMXXII [1922]

Language Note:

English translation of: Bible. Song of Solomon.

Notes:

Preface by Helen B. Jastrow; introduction by Franz Cumont.

"Three hundred & ten copies of this book printed for the Book Club of California by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn in November, 1922. The decoration is by Harold von Schmidt and initials by Joseph Sinel."--Colophon.

"Printed in black and red. Twenty-three blue initials by Joseph Sinel; headpiece decoration by Harold von Schmidt. Type Goudy Antique, handset; paper Whatman. Bound in full vellum; title in gold on back."--Heller.

Two silk fore-edge ties. Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Kislak Center copy is number 31. Many leaves uncut.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Grabhorn Press 39 & 55) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 39) is number 204 (the copy number stamped in green ink), signed by the printers, of a limited edition of 310 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 39) has armorial bookplate of James McDonald on front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 55) is unnumbered. See colophon.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 45

Magee, D. Book Club of California, 18

OCLC:

367562000