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A plurality of worlds / Bernard de Fontenelle ; John Glanvill's translation ; with a prologue by David Garnett.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Nonesuch Press 13
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757, author.
- Garnett, David, 1892-1981, author of prologue.
- Standardized Title:
- Pluralité des mondes. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Plurality of worlds.
- Genre:
- Private press books.
- Numbered limited editions.
- Stencil prints.
- Vellum bindings.
- Watermarks (Paper) -- 20th century.
- Inscriptions.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.
- Van Gelder (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, [1], 138, [2] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : The Curwen Press
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Nonesuch Press, 1929.
- Notes:
- "This edition of Fontenelle's La pluralité des mondes in John Glanvill's translation of 1688 consists of 1,200 copies for sale by the Nonesuch Press, and 400 copies for sale in the United States by Random House. It has been designed by Francis Meynell, composed by T.W. Hay at the Nonesuch Press, and printed on Van Gelder paper at the Curwen Press. The colour-stencilled decorations are by T.L. Poulton; the remainder are composed of astronomical signs. This copy is number ..."--Colophon.
- Title vignette: composition of typographic zodiacal symbols printed in black and red.
- Bound in limp vellum, lettered and stamped in gold.
- 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 312 In slipcase.
- Cited in:
- Dreyfus, John. History of Nonesuch Press, 65, page 214
- OCLC:
- 2111213
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