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Doves Press : the start of a worry / edited with an introduction by Colin Franklin ; foreword by Michael Hornby.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Bird & Bull Press 70
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doves Press.
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922--Correspondence.
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.
- Walker, Emery, 1851-1933--Correspondence.
- Walker, Emery.
- Printers--United States--Correspondence.
- Printers.
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922.
- Walker, Emery, 1851-1933.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 31, [3] pages ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- Newtown, Pa. : Printed at the Bird & Bull Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas : The Bridwell Library, 1983.
- Notes:
- Previously unpublished correspondence relating to the Doves Press, chiefly of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker.
- "Two hundred seventy-five copies of this book have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press in Newtown, Pa. The text was composed by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. and the binding was done by E.G. Parrot. This is copy no. [blank]"--Colophon.
- Printed in black and red.
- Binding: quarter dark brown cloth over brown paper boards; title stamped in gold on left board; deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 249 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 275 copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Heaney, H.J. Thirty years of Bird & Bull, B22 (page 77)
- OCLC:
- 9587284
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