Strings attached : Dorothy Abbe, her work and WAD / Anne C. Bromer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bromer, Anne, author.

Contributor:

Kristensen, John, typographer.

Firefly Press, compositor.

Wild Carrot Letterpress, printer.

Monadnock Paper Mills, papermaker.

Acme Bookbinding, binder.

Boston Public Library, publisher.

Society of Printers (Boston, Mass.), publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abbe, Dorothy.

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956.

Dwiggins, W. A.

Women printers--United States--Biography.

Women printers.

United States.

Genre:

Letterpress printing.

Limited editions.

Paper (fibre product)

Typefaces.

Biographies.

Publishers' prospectuses.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Waverley.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Colonna (Monotype)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

41, [5] pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Boston Public Library, 2001.

Boston : Society of Printers

Notes:

"Set in Intertype Waverley and Monotype Colonna types at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts. 500 copies, of which 450 are for sale, were printed on Monadnock Dulcet paper in April, 2001. The text was printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Massachusetts, and the photographs were printed at Champagne Lafayette Communications, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts. The books were bound at Acme Bookbinding, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Typography by John Kristensen"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust wrapper; publishers solicitation laid in.

OCLC:

48872810