A Miscellany for bibliophiles / edited by H. George Fletcher ; foreword by William Targ.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Targ, William, 1907-1999, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Fletcher, H. George, editor.

Grastorf & Lang, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book collecting.

Books.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xv, [1], 303, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Grastorf & Lang, 1979.

Contents:

Of dealers and collectors / Robert H. Taylor

Looking into provenance / Robert Nikirk

Inscribed books and literary scholarship / Salvatore J. Iacone

The graphic Confluence of 1800 / Leonard B. Schlosser

John Ruskin : the development of a private collection / R. Dyke Benjamin

Identifying and classifying fine bindings / Jamie Kleinberg Shalleck

Looking for Mr. Pickering / Philip Sperling

The author as book designer / Barbara J. Kline

Incunabular detective fiction / Otto Penzler

Early American newspapers : a brief guide to the first one-hundred seventy-five years / Roger N. Mohovich

Over against Saint Paul's / H. George Fletcher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has penciled note: "H. George Fletcher with all faults 1998."

ISBN:

0933408013

9780933408012

OCLC:

5925116