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A machine invented upon mature consideration of mechanick powers deducted from geometrick principles.

LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Weather Bird 148
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Fitzpatrick, Lydia, illustrator.
Gerry, Vance, printer.
Weather Bird Press, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Printing presses.
Genre:
Private press books (Printing)
Illustrated works.
Keepsakes.
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[4] pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm
Manufacture:
[California] : Printed by Vance Gerry, The Weather Bird Press, [1978]
Other Title:
English box hose common press
Notes:
Cover title with illustration.
Without pagination.
"This keepsake was compiled for the occasion of the first public showing of this Common Press at the Eleventh California Antiquarian Book Fair in Los Angeles, February, 1978"--Page [4].
"Printed by Vance Gerry: the Weather Bird Press Drawing by Lydia Fitzpatrick"--Page [4].
Local Notes:
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C 1482 AE") in pencil on page [1]; manuscript note ("15-") in pencil on page [4]..
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
OCLC:
81626950

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