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In black & white : a wood engraver's odyssey / by Wesley W. Bates.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Bird & Bull Press 32
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bates, Wesley W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bates, Wesley W.
- Wood-engravers--Canada.
- Wood-engravers.
- Wood-engraving, Canadian.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Mould-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Dante.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Slipcases (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Memoirs.
- Prospectuses.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 74, [4] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Newton, Pennsylvania] : Printed ... at the Bird & Bull Press, in October 2004.
- Other Title:
- In black and white
- Place of Publication:
- Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 2005.
- Notes:
- "140 copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper at the Bird & Bull Press in October, 2004. The book was composed in Dante types by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by The Campbell-Logan Bindery. No. [blank]"--Colophon.
- Title in black and red.
- Binding: full black cloth; illustrated paper label on left board; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("In Black & White"); deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed). Housed in red cloth slip case.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 96 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 140 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.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has publisher's prospectus for this edition laid in.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.
- OCLC:
- 688996739
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