Bird & Bull pepper pot : ingredients: choice bits of uncommon papermaking, publishing and printing history simmered in a tasty broth of poetry, current events and amusing anecdotes. Lightly seasoned with a dash of obscenity, and with selection portions of fresh tripe added as in the old oroginal recipe / prepared with a zestful variety of type faces and served by Henry Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Henry, 1925-2019, author.

Contributor:

Parrot, Gray, binder.

Bird & Bull Press, publisher, printer, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papermaking--History.

Papermaking.

Papermaking--Miscellanea.

Printing--Miscellanea.

Printing.

Private press books.

Genre:

History.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Case bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Artists' books.

Illustrated works.

Memoirs.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

86, [4] pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, sample ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Pepper pot

Place of Publication:

North Hills, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1977.

Contents:

The adventures of a boy printer

To err is human

William Nash of St. Paul's Cray

Bovine again

So what more can a publisher do?

The 13th IPH Congress at Fabriano

Jacob Christian Schaeffer.

Notes:

Erratum slip laid in after page 22.

"Approximately 250 copies of this book have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press on Green's handmade B&B paper. The paste paper and grapevine paper were made at the Press and the binding was done by Gray Parrot. This is copy number [blank]"--Colophon.

Title in black and green.

"Binding: Quarter tan morocco, paste paper over boards; lettered horizontally in gilt on spine BIRD / & BULL / PEPPER POT / 1977. Morocco corner tips; green endpapers."--Taylor.

Deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 213 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in blue ink) of a limited edition of approximately 250 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:

Taylor, W.T. Twenty-one years of Bird & Bull, A19 (pages 61-63)

OCLC:

8476971