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The closing of the Doves Press : a letter / from Cobden-Sanderson ; with a preface by David Magee ...
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 37
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922, correspondent.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922--Correspondence.
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.
- Doves Press--Exhibitions.
- Doves Press.
- Doves Bindery--Exhibitions.
- Doves Bindery.
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922.
- Private presses--England--London--Exhibitions.
- Private presses.
- Bookbinding--England--London--Exhibitions.
- Bookbinding.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Personal correspondence.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Printed wrappers (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Keepsakes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [16] pages ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- San Francisco : Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem.
- Place of Publication:
- [Stanford, California] : [Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University], [1969]
- Contents:
- Preface / David Magee
- The letter [to Nora C. Jenkins]
- A Doves sampling / Julius P. Barclay.
- Notes:
- "A keepsake to commemorate the opening of an exhibition of Cobden-Sanderson bindings, books from the Doves Press and the Doves Bindery, selected from the collections of Norman H. Strouse and Morgan A. Gunst. Stanford University Libraries, April 1969."--Title leaf.
- Printed in red and black.
- Binding: green paper wrappers; title printed on front wrapper; deckled edges, untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- 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 laid in advertisement for "Giovanni Mardersteig and the Officina Bodoni : a talk by John Dreyfus of London" at The Roxburghe Club, 9 November 1971; postcard with image of St. Mark by Eric Gill (San Francisco: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, printers; no. 7); bookmark advertising the opening reception of the exhibition "James E. Beard and Friends" by The Napa County Museum Association.
- OCLC:
- 54251973
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