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Busby's street scenes : images of street hawkers and criers in 19th-century London and Paris / by Thomas Lord Busby ; with a foreword by Henry Morris.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Bird & Bull Press 34
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Busby, Thomas Lord, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Cries of London drawn from life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cries--England--London--Pictorial works.
- Costume--England--London--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Costume--France--Paris--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Costume.
- Cries.
- England--London.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Mould-made papers (Paper)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Book prospectuses.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 22, [6] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates, [80] pages of color plates : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Newtown, Pennsylvania] : Printed at Bird & Bull Press, in December 2012.
- Other Title:
- Images of street hawkers and criers in 19th-century London and Paris
- Place of Publication:
- Newtown : Bird & Bull Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Reproduces two pictorial works by Thomas Lord Busby, The cries of London, drawn from life ; and, Costume of the lower orders in Paris.
- Notes:
- "The text of Busby's street scenes is printed on Arches mould-made paper and bound in Japanese cloth with pasted front label, in the chap-book style ... [I]t is now time to end my 55-year journey with Bird & Bull Press. So this is my last book"--Publisher's prospectus.
- "120 copies printed at Bird & Bull Press in December 2012"--Colophon.
- Title in black and red.
- Deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: publisher's prospectus laid in.
- Contains:
- Busby, Thomas Lord. Costume of the lower orders in Paris.
- OCLC:
- 836817565
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