A prayer for a wedding / by John Haynes Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964, author.

Contributor:

Van Vechten, George W., Jr., -1962, compositor, illustrator.

Press of the Woolly Whale, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage (Liturgy).

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Tory.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[5] double leaves ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Press of the Woolly Whale], [1938]

Notes:

Title and text within decorated borders.

Printed on outside rectos and versos of double leaves (uncut at top).

"Printed for Madeline Curtis Walsh and James William Walsh on the first anniversary of their Wedding Day, October 14th, 1937, when this prayer was offered."--Recto of second double leaf.

"Set in 18 point Goudy Tory with decorations by George W. Van Vechten, jr. and a few copies printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, New York, 1938."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

1630821