Proverbs of hell / William Blake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, William, 1757-1827, author.

Contributor:

Bahr, Leonard F., printer, book designer.

Adagio Press, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Michigan--Harper Woods--Specimens.

Printing.

Michigan--Harper Woods.

Genre:

Specimens.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Trump Mediaeval Italic.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Jaguar.

Frankfurt (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Bahr, Leonard F. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[32] pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Harper Woods, Mich.] : [Adagio Press], [1982]

Notes:

Adagio is the private press of Leonard F. Bahr.

"First published June 5, 1793."--half-title page verso.

"The text for this edition of William Blake's Proverbs of hell is based on that edited by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, as published by The Modern Library of Random House, Inc."

"Approximately two hundred copies have been printed .. The type used for the proverbs is Trump Mediaeval Italic... The alternate type is Jaguar ... The text paper is Frankfurt."--colophon,

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 145. Signed. Prospectus laid in.

OCLC:

10212212