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Abelard & Heloise : the love letters, a poetical rendering / by Ella Costillo Bennett ; the frontispiece done in photogravure from a painting by Will Jenkins.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Paul Elder 27
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bennett, Ella Costillo, author.
Contributor:
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Jenkins, Will, illustrator.
Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947, printer.
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.
Paul Elder and Company, publisher.
Tomoyé Press, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142--Poetry.
Abelard, Peter.
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164--Poetry.
Héloïse.
Women educators--France--Correspondence--Poetry.
Women educators.
Abbesses, Christian--France--Correspondence--Poetry.
Abbesses, Christian.
Theologians--France--Correspondence--Poetry.
Theologians.
Love-letters--Poetry.
Love-letters.
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
France.
Genre:
Epistolary poetry.
Love poetry.
Poetry.
Private press books (Printing)
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)
Physical Description:
[6], iii, [1], 36, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Manufacture:
San Francisco : Tomoye Press
Other Title:
Abelard and Heloise : the love letters, a poetical rendering
Place of Publication:
San Francisco : Paul Elder & Company., 1911.
Notes:
Ï have not tried to keep in touch with, nor in any way follow, the originals, except as to sentiment ... E[lla] C. B[ennett].-̈-Introduction.
"Published by Paul Elder and Company, and done into a book for them at their Tomoyé Press, under the direction of John Henry Nash, at the City of San Francisco in the year Nineteen Hundred and Eleven."
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 1 retains dustjacket,
OCLC:
4911910

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