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The beautiful wedding.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 67
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944, author, publisher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Field, Katherine--Literary collections.
- Field, Katherine.
- Caldwell, James--Literary collections.
- Caldwell, James.
- Weddings--Literary collections.
- Weddings.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Mould-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Poliphilus.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Blumenthal, George, 1858-1941 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Field, Katherine (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 89, [3] pages ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : Privately printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn.
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Gatos ... California] : [Printed for Charles Erskine Scott Wood], [1929]
- Notes:
- "By Charles Erskine Scott Wood; addenda by Sara Bard Field."--Heller.
- "Privately printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn"--Colophon.
- "Printer's device (O) below colophon and lettering of headpiece printed in red. Headpiece illustration by Ray Boynton. Type Poliphilus, handset; paper Pannekoek mold made. bound in flexible green boards; cream label printed in black on back. Some copies with red leather label lettered in gold on back. Approximately two hundred copies privately printed for Charles Erskine Scott Wood in 1929. Distributed to guests and friends of Colonel Wood and Sara Bard Field to commemorate the marriage of Katherine Field and James Caldwell. Headpiece previously used in Poems from the ranges, by the same author, published earlier in 1929."--Heller.
- 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 on page opposite title leaf dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("George Blumenthal from his greatly indebted friends The Chronicler & the Bride herself. "The Cats" Los Gatos California 1930 -") recording the gift of this volume to George Blumenthal from Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Sara Bard Field, and Katherine Field at Los Gatos, California, in 1930.
- Cited in:
- Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 123
- OCLC:
- 10145513
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