Old China : being one of The last essays of Elia / by Charles Lamb ; to which are added certain observations on the author by William Hazlitt, as well as a foreword by the printers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834, author.

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830, author.

Contributor:

Sollitt, Betty, printer.

Sollitt, Ralph, printer.

Redcoat Press, publisher.

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

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.

Lamb, Charles.

Privately printed books--Specimens.

Privately printed books.

Gift books.

Genre:

Specimens.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- English Caslon Old Face.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

viii, 30, [2] pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Printed at the Redcoat Press, 1940.

Summary:

The first publication of the Redcoat Press.

Notes:

Number -- of 150 copies printed by Betty & Ralph Sollitt ; decorations by Betty Sollitt. Set in English Caslon Old Face.--Colophon.

"An excerpt from The spirit of the age by William Hazlitt", pages [19]-30.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes gift; presentation slip laid in.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has slip with printers compliments laid in.

Contains:

Spirit of the age.

OCLC:

14248111