Cockerell : Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, friend of Ruskin and William Morris and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge / by Wilfrid Blunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-1987, author.

Contributor:

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.

Halliday Lithograph Corporation, printer.

H. Wolff Book Bindery (Firm), binder.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle.

Museum directors--Biography.

Museum directors.

Genre:

Biographies.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Walbaum.

Case bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xviii, 385, [1] pages, [17] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, portraits ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Manufacture:

West Hanover, Mass. : Printed by Halliday Lithograph Corp.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

Notes:

Edition statement from title page verso.

Date appears before place of publication in imprint.

Printer statement from colophon on page [386].

"This is a Borzoi book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."--Verso of title leaf.

"The text of the book was set on the Monotype in a type face called Walbaum, cut early in the nineteenth century by J.E. Walbaum, a type founder at Goslar and Weimar, who followed Didot in the design of this modern face. His original matrices are still in existence, and are the property of the Berthold foundry, of Berlin, Germany."--Page [386].

"Bound by H. Wolff, New York"--Page [386].

Illustrated endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained; untrimmed fore-edges.

OCLC:

337265