The book of Ruth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grabhorn, Edwin E., printer.

Grabhorn, Robert, printer.

Gentry, Helen, 1897-1988, typographer.

Wheeler, William (Bookbinder)

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illuminator.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Van Gelder Zonen, papermaker.

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

Standardized Title:

Bible. Ruth. English. Authorized. 1927.

Language:

English

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Unopened edges.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Gothique Ancienne.

Case bindings (Binding)

Slipcases (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[42] pages : 1 color illustration ; 12 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Printed for the Book Club of California by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco, in September 1927.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon, which reads: Two hundred fifty copies printed for the Book Club of California by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco, in September 1927. Type set by Helen Gentry. Binding by William Wheeler. Illumination by Valenti Angelo.

"Title and colophon printed in red. Colored headpiece, first word of text and forty-five colored initials designed and illuminated by Valenti Angleo. Type Gothique Anicenne, handset; paper Van Gelder. Bound in marbled boards with tan cloth back; title in gold on back ... This edition of The book of Ruth must not be confused with the one in a larger format and double columns printed the previous year. However the type was not reset for this edition. The double columns of the first Book of Ruth were simply used in single column. Three copies were printed on vellum, with special illuminations, for the artist and the printers."--Heller.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 22 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 250 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: many leaves unopened at head edge.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy housed in slip case.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 97

Wagner, H.R. Grabhorn press, p. 18 (var.)

OCLC:

228681091