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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
Contributor:
Swain, Margaret, 1909-2002.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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