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Oscar Weil : letters and papers.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 9
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weil, Oscar, 1840-1921, author, correspondent.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weil, Oscar, 1840-1921.
- Weil, Oscar.
- Composers--United States--Correspondence.
- Composers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Mould-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Correspondence.
- Illustrated works.
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Clement, Ada (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [16], 119, [7] pages : portrait ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Letters and papers
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, MCMXXIII [1923]
- [San Francisco] : Printed by the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, California, in December, 1923
- Notes:
- "Memoir by Flora J. Arnstein, Albert I. Elkus, and Stewart W. Young."--Heller.
- "Four hundred copies of 'Oscar Weil: letters and papers' printed by the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, California, in December, 1923. Title page design by H. Von Schmidt. Photograph by Dorothea Lange from a painting of Oscar Weil by Olga M. Ackerman ..."--Colophon.
- "Title page design, section titles, marginal notes, colophon, and forty-five initials printed in red; two caption titles in red and black; four initials in blue. Portrait frontispiece, mounted with gold double ruled and designed border ... Type Garamond, handset; paper German mold made. Bound in maroon boards with black cloth back; red label sprinted in gold on front cover and on back."--Heller.
- Deckled edges, untrimmed.
- Discography: pages 123-125.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 254 of a limited edition of 400 copies. 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.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("ADA CLEMENT EX LIBRIS") on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 58
- OCLC:
- 38677417
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