A recipe from the Renaissance.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerry, Vance, publisher.

Hess, Sol, 1886-1953, type designer.

Reagh, Patrick, compositor.

Weather Bird Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--15th century.

Cooking.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Artscript.

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Cookbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 78 & 79))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 78 & 79))

Physical Description:

[8] pages : illustrations ; 13 x 23 cm

Other Title:

To make pies that the birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up : (c. 1500)

Place of Publication:

[Pasadena, California] : Vance Gerry: The Weather Bird Press, [198-?]

Notes:

"A bit of the past put into print. Showing Artscript type designed by Sol Hess and cast by Patrick Reagh."--Colophon.

Bound, as issued, in printed wrapper.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies Weather Bird 78 and Weather Bird 79 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 78) has manuscript note ("C1428 AC") in pencil on page [1].

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 79) has manuscript note ("C1381 AC") in pencil on page [1].

OCLC:

225864707