Restful reading for young & old : designed to banish care and alleviate cynicism : decorously illustrated with cuts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerry, Vance, publisher.

Weather Bird Press, publisher, binder.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature, English.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.

Wrappers (Binding)

Children's literature.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6] leaves : color illustrations ; 33 cm

Place of Publication:

South Laguna : V. Gerry: The Weather Bird Press ..., 1968.

Contents:

Our Dog Tray

The fields in spring

Nine-pins

Goody Two-shoes.

Notes:

"Text taken from early English children's books. Pictures from the same source ... reengraved on linoleum."--Leaf [2].

"Janson type. 5 linoleum cuts. Bound in wrappers by the press. 50 copies printed. (Probably fewer bound.)"--Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1500 iC") in pencil on title leaf.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in brown paper wrappers; paper label printed in green with title on front wrapper.

Cited in:

Gerry, Vance. Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press, number 4

OCLC:

22335667