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

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Folio Limited Editions Club 6
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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

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