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The Roxburghe Club : an extract from The book-hunter, 1862 / by John Hill Burton.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 56
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burton, John Hill, 1809-1881, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roxburghe Club.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 24 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Extract from The book-hunter, 1862
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : [The printing-office of Andrew Hoyem & Robert Grabhorn], [1970]
- Notes:
- "[T]he undersigned members [of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco] have chosen to reprint this account of the first Roxburghe Club, taken from that classic of book-collecting literature, The book-hunter by John Hill Burton, in a small edition of one hundred copies for presentation to their fellows on the occasion of their visit, on the evening of January 20, 1970, to the printing-office of Andrew Hoyem & Robert Grabhorn."--Advertisement.
- 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 bound in quarter gray-green paper over maroon paper boards; deckled edges, untrimmed.
- OCLC:
- 14361071
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