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The Gallic wars / Julius Caesar ; a new translation by John Warrington ; with a preface by John Mason Brown ; and an introduction by the translator ; Illustrated with engravings by Bruno Bramanti.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Heritage Club 19
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caesar, Julius, author.
- Brown, John Mason, author of preface.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Gaul--History--58 B.C.-511 A.D.
- Gaul.
- Europe--Gaul.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Manufacture:
- Hartford, Conn. : Kellogg & Bulkeley
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Heritage Press 1955.
- Notes:
- "This edition is based upon the beautiful edition of "The Gallic Wars" printed by the Officina Bodoni at Verona for the Limited Editions Club. The special contents are copyright, 1955, by the George Macy Companies, Inc."--verso of title page.
- The designer's name is now Giovanni Mardersteig ... The text is composed in... Bembo. The [work] was first printed at Verona in an edition of fifteen hundred copies for ... The Limited Editions Club. Then the pages of type, along with special hand-pulled proofs of the engravings, were photographed at the shop of Kellogg & Bulkeley ... and there this Heritage edition was printed, on a deeply toned first-quality paper made especially for this book by the International Paper Company. The printed sheets were bound by Frank Daniel Fortney at the bindery of Russell-Rutter in New York. The backs of the boards are covered with buckram ... the sides are covered with a hand-made marbled kraft...---from The Heritage Club Sandglass Number IX:19.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has The Heritage Club Sandglass Number IX:19 laid in.
- OCLC:
- 861065296
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