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The Rhemes New Testament : being a full and particular account of the origins, printing, and subsequent influences of the first Roman Catholic New Testament in English, with the divers controversies occasioned by its publication diligently expounded for the edification of the reader / by Decherd Turner ; accompanied by a leaf from the original edition, and other profitable illustrations.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 139
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, Decherd, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 193.
- Publication / Book Club of California ; number 193
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. New Testament--English--Versions--Rheims.
- Bible.
- Bible. New Testament.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Mould-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Romulus Open.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Leaf books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Sperisen, Albert, 1908-1999 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 37 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Austin : Printed ... by W. Thomas Taylor
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Printed for The Book Club of California, MCMXC [1990]
- Notes:
- "Three hundred ninety five copies of this book were produced at the press of W. Thomas Taylor. The typeface is Monotype Bembo, composed at the press; the display type is Romulus Open. The paper is Lana, a French mouldmade sheet, and the edition has been bound in goatskin and Fabriano paper over boards by BookLab in Austin, Texas."--Colophon.
- "Title and divisional titles in red and black. Facsimiles of a title and text page."--Book Club of California.
- "A leaf taken from an imperfect copy of the first edition of the Rhemes New Testament (1582)" mounted on p. [39].
- Binding: quarter red goat over pale brown boards; title stamped in gold on spine.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 37).
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C-1554 AOO") 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 bookplate of Albert Sperisen affixed to front pastedown.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has a leaf (pages 503-504) taken from an imperfect copy of the first edition of the Rhemes New Testament (1582) mounted on page 39.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in 2 copies of publisher's prospectus for this edition (1 with order envelope); photoreproductions of two pages of the Douai New Testament (Rheims, 1585) with woodcut letter A inhabited by satyrs, each with photoreproduction of bookseller's printed description of The four gospels (1931) affixed with clear tape.
- Cited in:
- Book Club of California. The two hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol2-The-Two-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 193
- Kurutz, Gary F. The Book Club of California at one hundred, page 55
- OCLC:
- 28712844
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