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LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Peter Pauper Press 12
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English essays--18th century.
- English essays.
- English essays--19th century.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Worthy ivory rag (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Fournier.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 83 pages ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- New Rochelle, NY : Walpole Printing Office
- Place of Publication:
- New Rochelle, NY : Peter Pauper Press, [1934]
- Contents:
- From title page: Dream children : a revery
- The praise of chimney-sweepers
- Old china
- A chapter on ears
- The two races of men
- A dissertation upon roast pig.
- Notes:
- "On this one hundredth anniversary of the death of Charles Lamb ..."--Note.
- "... with decorations by John Rudolph."--Imprint on title page.
- Marginal illustrations and initials in various colors.
- "1000 copies of this edition, set by hand in Fournier type, have been printed on a special Worthy ivory rag paper at the Walpole Printing Office, New Rochelle..."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Cited in:
- Donnelly & Dobkin, 476 (page 133)
- OCLC:
- 1053901998
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