The history of Susanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dean, Mallette, 1907-1975, illustrator.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

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

Standardized Title:

Bible. History of Susanna. English. 1950.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Susanna (Biblical figure).

Susanna.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Case bindings (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[28] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Printed ... by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco, [1950?]

Notes:

"This edition of 'The history of Susanna set apart from the beginning of Daniel, because it is not in the Hebrew,' is printed from the Holy Bible (King James Version) by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco. It is limited to four hundred copies printed from Rudolf Koch's Bibel Gotisch type with engravings by Mallette Dean"--Colophon.

Title in black with red decorative initial; colophon in red with black decorative initial. One gold and seven black decorative initials in text; verse numbers in red. Printer's device in red and black at foot of page [26].

Bound in quarter red cloth over decorated paper boards; printed paper spine label ("The history of Susanna"); 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.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 451

OCLC:

1650750