The Book of Ruth and Boaz according to the King James Version of the Holy Bible.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, printer, book designer, illuminator, autographer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Ruth. English. Authorized. 1949.

Language:

English

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Autographs (Provenance)

Booksellers' labels (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Philip C. Duschnes (Firm) (label) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[16] pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Press of Valenti Angelo, 1949.

Notes:

"This book has been designed, handset, illuminated and printed on the handpress of Valenti Angelo, in the year nineteen hundred and forty-nine in New York. This edition is limited to one hundred and fifty numbered and signed copies."--Colophon.

Colored and illuminated title illustration; colored tail-piece.

Initial spaces, in which are supplied 1 7-line manuscript initial, 1 5-line manuscript initial, and 2 6-line manuscript initials, each in blue and gold; spaces for paragraph marks. Spaces for paragraph marks, supplied in manuscript largely in red (1 in blue).

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 15 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has bookseller's label ("Philip C. Duschnes Rare Books 66 East 56th Street New York 22, N.Y.") on back pastedown.

OCLC:

12287347