Imaginary conversations / Walter Savage Landor ; selected & introduced by R.H. Boothroyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864, author.

Contributor:

Boothroyd, R. H. (Ronald Herbert), editor, author of introduction.

Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977, printer.

Officina Bodoni, printer.

Limited Editions Club, publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Imaginary conversations. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary conversations.

Genre:

Private press books -- United States -- 1936.

Numbered limited editions -- United States -- 1936.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977 (autogaph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 303 pages ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

Verona : Officina Bodoni

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, MCMXXXVI [1936]

Notes:

"The text is based on that of the 1846 edition"-- page [xii].

"Of this book fifteen hundred copies have been printed ... at the Officina Bodini in Verona by Hans Mardersteig, who here signs"--Colophon.

Issued in slipcase.

"Set in monotype Fontana; Maslianico hand-made paper, full natural, decorated linen stamped in brown and gold"--see Quaro-Millenary..

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 933 and signed by the printer.

Cited in:

Quarto-Millenary, page 248, #76.

Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, 76

Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 76

OCLC:

2900264