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The hidden treasures, or, The adventures of Maitre Cornelius / Honore de Balzac.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Allen Press 6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Chef d'œuvre inconnu. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665--Fiction.
- Poussin, Nicolas.
- Painters--Fiction.
- Painters.
- France--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Romanée.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Marbled paper bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- lx leaves : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Hidden treasures
- Adventures of Maitre Cornelius
- Place of Publication:
- Kentfield, California : The L-D Allen Press, MCMLIII [1953]
- Language Note:
- English translation of: Chef d'œuvre inconnu.
- Notes:
- "The foliation includes two blank fly-leaves before the title. With four hand-colored illustrations."--Allen Press.
- "This book is one of an edition limited to one hundred sixty copies. The type face is Romanée, hand-set; the paper is hand-made Highclere, printed damp. The book was designed, printed on an Acorn handpress, and bound by Lewis & Dorothy Allen at The L-D Allen Press. The illustrations were engraved on wood by Mallette Dean, and illuminated by Dorothy Allen"--Colophon.
- Binding: quarter blue French paper over marbled French paper boards; title and author's surname printed in red on spine; deckled edges, untrimmed; acetate dust jacket.
- 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: dust jacket (damaged) retained.
- Cited in:
- Allen Press. The Allen Press bibliography, 13
- OCLC:
- 8050831
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