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The scarlet letter / by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; designed and illustrated by W. A. Dwiggins.

LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Heritage Club 10
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS1868 .A1 1946
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Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Fiction.
  • Private press books (Printing)
  • Vellum (Paper)
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.
  • Novels.
Penn Provenance:
  • Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
  • Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
280 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Manufacture:
Rahway, NJ : Quinn & Boden Company.
Place of Publication:
New York : Heritage Press, 1946.
Notes:
  • Designed and illustrated by W. A. Dwiggins.--verso of title page.
  • "The special contents of this edition are copyright 1946 by the Heritage Press, Inc."--verso of title page.
  • In slipcase.
  • Reprint of 1935 edition. The type used is Baskerville, The text has been printed on a wove vellum paper made by the Mead Paper Company. The printers and binders are the Quinn & Boden Company of Rahway, New Jersey. -- from the Heritage Club Monthly brochure 'Sandglass'. Number VIII:27.
Local Notes:
  • Athenaeum copy: Bound in gray cloth with design in grayed raw umber.
  • Athenaeum copy: Gift: R.W. Moss, jr.
  • Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.
  • Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has Heritage Club Monthly brochure 'Sandglass'. Number VIII:27 laid in.
Cited in:
Dwiggins, W. A. Stencilled ornament & illustration, 51.
OCLC:
6437187

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