The compleat Jane Grabhorn : a hodge-podge of typographic ephemera, three complete books, broadsides, invitations, greetings, place cards, etc., etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grabhorn, Jane Bissell, author, printer.

Contributor:

Oldfield, Otis, 1890-1969, illustrator.

Grabhorn, Robert, writer of foreword.

Grabhorn-Hoyem (Firm), printer, distributor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jumbo Press.

Printing--Specimens.

Printing.

Genre:

Specimens.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[12], 76, [2] pages, [3] folded leaves of plates, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Printed & offered for sale by Grabhorn-Hoyem, 566 Commercial St., MCMLXVIII [1968]

Notes:

"The complete Jane Grabhorn was completed in an edition of 400 copies on March 28, 1968 by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem."--Colophon.

Title in red and black; colophon in red.

Colored title vignette (printer's device of Colt Press) drawn by Otis Oldfield.

Head pieces.

Some folded pieces of ephemera of the Jumbo Press tipped in.

Foreword by Robert Grabhorn.

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 folded advertisement for this work.

OCLC:

1662582