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The gentle cynic / being a translation of the Book of Koheleth known as Ecclesiastes by Morris Jastrow, Jr.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 18
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. Ecclesiastes. English. Jastrow. 1927.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Ecclesiastes--Commentaries.
- Bible.
- Bible. Ecclesiastes.
- Genre:
- Commentaries.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Antique.
- Silk ties (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Vellum bindings (Binding)
- Translations.
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Forehand, Frederic, 1860-1928 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [48] pages : 1 illustration ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : Printed ... at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, for The Book Club of California ..., MCMXXVII [1927]
- Notes:
- "Two hundred and fifty copies of this edition of 'The gentle cynic' printed and bound at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, for The Book Club of California, in June, 1927. Illustration by Valenti Angelo. Copy no. [blank]"--Colophon.
- "Caption title of introduction, half title, paragraph numbers, and colophon printed in red; twenty-four initials in red and blue. Headpiece and one gold initial by Valenti Angelo. Type Goudy Antique, handset; paper Whatman. Bound in parchment with blue ties; title in black on back."--Heller.
- Deckled edges, untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 141 (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 has illustrated bookplate (signed: J. Thomas Smith Sc. 1900) of Frederic Forehand (1860-1928) on front pastedown; dated 20th-century manuscript gift inscription ("To another Cynic who is not so gentle- and To the best Dad in all the world from Jane Xmas 1927 A.D.") on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 91
- OCLC:
- 20429056
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