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La porte de Malétroit / by Robert Louis Stevenson.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Allen Press 15
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sire de Malétroit's door
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Scottish authors--19th century.
- English fiction.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Romance fiction.
- France--History--Charles VII, 1422-1461--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Chemises (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Wrappers (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Romances.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 60 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cagnes-sur-Mer, France : Printed for the Book Club of California by The L-D Allen Press, 1952.
- Notes:
- Originally published under title: The Sire de Malétroit's door.
- "The pagination includes a blank fly-leaf before the half-title."--Allen Press.
- "This book, one of 300 copies, was hand-set in Garamond types, and was printed on a French hand-press; the paper, hand-made, is from the medieval mill of Richard de Bas. Decorations by Ray Bethers. Printed in France"--Colophon.
- "Coat of arms on half-title, border on title, heading on first page of text, opening initial and one other, four full-page illustrations, all in terra-cotta, blue and gold by Ray Bethers. Coat-of-arms and illustrations heightened in gold by hand. Running heads in blue. Type Garamond, handset. Paper handmade. Bound in white stiff wrappers, title in blue on back and in red on front cover, enclosed in French style slipcase with title in gold on back"--Book Club of California.
- "The binding is in the French style; a resilient paper jacket sewn to the book and protected by cellophane, and a stiff board chemise with matching slipcase."--Allen Press.
- Deckled edges, untrimmed.
- 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 jackets and slip case retained.
- Cited in:
- Allen Press. The Allen Press bibliography, 11 (page 30)
- Book Club of California. The hundredth book, 81 (page 42)
- OCLC:
- 2066360
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