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A Devotional miscellany; a printed replica of an embroidered book in the Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. / Text by Margaret H. Swain.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design NK9262 .D4
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Embroidery, Spanish.
- Book ornamentation.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 72 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm
- Manufacture:
- West Berlin, Germany : Printed by Brüder Hartmann.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, [1966?]
- Notes:
- "This volume presents a partial facsimile of an embroidered book ... A true facsimile was not possible owing to the physical limitations imposed by the translation of a three-dimensional medium, embroidery, into a two-dimensional medium, printing."--Editor's Note.
- Orange cloth boards with silver and gold design on front and back covers. Housed in slipcase.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: slipcase retained.
- OCLC:
- 366328
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