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Gossip about an old house on the Upper Thames / by William Morris.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Kelmscott Press 78
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, William, 1834-1896, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morris, William, 1834-1896--Homes and haunts.
- Morris, William.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Unopened edges.
- Japan vellum (Paper)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Memoirs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 25, [7] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Flushing, New York, N.Y.] : Reprinted ... by J.E. Hill, at Flushing, Queens Borough, New York, and finished on the twenty-third day of February, 1901.
- Place of Publication:
- Flushing, Queens Borough, New York : [J.E. Hill], MDCCCI [1901]
- Notes:
- "One hundred copies of this book have been printed on Japan Vellum, seventy-five of which are for sale."--Limitation statement.
- "The illustration used as the frontispiece herein is by C.M. Gere, and was used in the Kelmscott Press edition of 'News from Nowhere.' The other illustrations are by E.H. New, & the initial letters were designed & engraved on wood by J.E. Hill. Reprinted from 'The Quest' by permission of the publisher, D.B. Updike, Boston, by J.E. Hill, at Flushing, Queens Borough, New York, and finished on the twenty-third day of February, 1901."--Colophon.
- The first 4 and last 5 pages are blanks.
- Printed in red and black.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 72 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 100 copies printed on Japan Vellum, 75 of which were for sale. See limitation statement.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: leaves unopened at head edge.
- OCLC:
- 6034417
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