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Les ballades de maistre Francois Villon.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Eragny 3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Villon, François, 1431-1463, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French poetry--To 1500.
- French poetry.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Unopened edges (Paper).
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Name.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Poems.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 88, [4] pages : 1 illustration ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : E. et L. Pissarro, Eragny Press
- Other Title:
- Ballades
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hacon & Ricketts, 17 Craven Street, Strand MCM [1900]
- Notes:
- Printer statement from device on page [1].
- "Le frontispice a ete dessine et grave sur bois par Lucien Pissarro. La bordure & les lettres ornees ont ete dessinees par L. Pissarro & gravees par Esther Pissarro. Cette edition est strictement limitee a deux cent vingt six exemplaires, dont deux cents pour la vente."--Colophon.
- "Paper and dimensions: Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper with Vale watermark; four copies printed on old Japanese handmade paper. Leaf: 195 x 130 mm. Type: Vale"--Genz.
- "Pressmark; wood-engraved illustration in black and white; border printed in black and red; one large initial in red; thirty-eight initials in red."--Genz.
- "Binding: Quarter buff paper, gold stamped on upper left cover: (orn: trefoil) VILLON | BALLADES. White paper boards with repeat pattern of small five-petalled flowers (NIF) printed in pink. On spine: gold-stamped: (orn: trefoil) | VIL- | LON (double orn: trefoil) | BAL- | LADES. | (orn: trefoil)"--Genz. Deckled edges, untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has tissue guard laid in between frontispiece illustration and title leaf.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: most leaves unopened at head edge.
- Cited in:
- Genz, M.D. History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, EP6
- OCLC:
- 3860162
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