Voix de Noël / by Louis Fréchette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fréchette, Louis, 1839-1908, author.

Contributor:

Van Patten, Nathan, 1887-1956, writer of introduction.

Starr, Judson, 1890-1960, illustrator.

Krimpen, Jan van, 1892-1958, type designer.

Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., publisher.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Christmas poetry, French.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Lutetia.

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Christmas books.

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[10] pages : 1 color illustration ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Printed by the Grabhorn Press ... for Leon Gelber & Theodore Lilienthal ..., 1936.

Language Note:

Poem in French; introduction by Nathan van Patten in English.

Notes:

"Two hundred copies of this poem printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Leon Gelber & Theodore Lilienthal in December 1936 Copy no. [blank]"--Colophon.

"Title printed in black and blue; one blue initial. Colored frontispiece of Virgin and child by Judson Starr. Type Lutetia, handset; paper machine made. Bound in limp brown boards; title in brown on front cover ... First published as poetical preface to Fréchette's Noel au Canada, in 1900."--Heller.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is one of a limited edition of 200 copies, unnumbered. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 260

OCLC:

1864135