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Musical rules at home & in life / Robert Schumann ; [translated by Paul Merrick].
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Contre Coup 20
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Musikalische Haus- und Lebensregeln. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856--Quotations.
- Schumann, Robert.
- Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
- Music--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Music.
- Musicians--Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Musicians.
- Genre:
- Artists' books -- 21st century.
- Japanese sewing (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Quotations.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cochin.
- Frankfurt (paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume ([18] leaves) ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Musical rules at home and in life
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville : Contre Coup Press, 2007.
- Notes:
- "Robert Schumann wrote his "Musical Rules at Home and in Life" to his album of easy - but still gorgeous - piano pieces entitled "Album for the Young" (Opus 68)."--Introduction.
- "When hand-setting this book, the Cochin typeface might be selected for the text. The book should be printed on Frankfurt paper... the book bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis ... [limited] to 32 copies"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Text block consists of papers untrimmed at the fore edge, bound between red cloth-covered boards using Japanese sewing; has applied printed paper label on front cover.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection has printed email exchange between Vilain and Hawley (the publisher).
- OCLC:
- 192003523
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