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Physiologus : the very ancient book of beasts, plants, and stones / translated from Greek and other languages by Francis J. Carmody.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 58
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 85.
- Book Club of California. [Publication ; number 85]
- Standardized Title:
- Physiologus.
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Bestiaries.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Mould-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- French Elzevir
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Western Books Exhibition (13th : 1954 : Los Angeles, Calif.) (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [76] pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Manufacture:
- Fairfax, California : Vivien & Mallette Dean, in the year of our Lord MCMLIII [1953]
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, MCMLIII [1953]
- Notes:
- Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.
- "Three hundred & twenty-five copies of this book have been made by Vivien & Mallette Dean. The type is French Elzevir, hand-set; the paper is Arches mould-made; and the hand-colored illustrations have been engraved on and printed from linoleum blocks. Completed at Fairfax, California, in the year of our Lord MCMLIII"--Colophon.
- "Title in red and black. Fifty-four illustrations, including those on title and half-title, all drawn and hand-colored by Mallette Dean. Hand-colored initials throughout, some decorative. Marginal headings and printer’s device on colophon in red."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: "Bound in white parchment with an over-all decorative pattern in grey-blue, title in red on back."--Book Club of California.
- "Included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce & Coffin Club)."--Book Club of California.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("365 copies", "P6408" and "C-1373 NCC") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("Thirteenth Western Books Exhibition 1954 Rounce & Coffin Club") on front pastedown; exhibition card for this item laid in.
- Cited in:
- Book Club of California. The hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol1-The-Hundredth-Book.pdf, number 85
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 48
- OCLC:
- 3216288
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