The oath of a free-man / with a historical study by Lawrence C. Wroth and a note on the Stephen Daye Press by Melbert B. Cary, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970, author.

Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941, author.

Contributor:

Press of the Woolly Whale, publisher, printer.

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

Series:

Keepsake (American Institute of Graphic Arts) ; 60.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Daye, Stephen, 1611-1668.

Daye, Stephen.

Oaths--Massachusetts.

Oaths.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[18] pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Press of the Woolly Whale, MCMXXXIX [1939].

Notes:

Sheet laid in: The American Institute of Graphic Arts ... Keepsake no. 60. ... A historical study of the first production of the first press to be set up in what is now the United States, the Stephen Daye Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Oath was first printed in 1639. The text ... is based on the address Mr. Wroth delivered at the meeting held by the Institute on January 20, 1939, at the New York Public Library. ... To this, Melbert B. Cary, Jr., has added a note on the ... Press and a "facsimile" of the Oath as he conceives it might originally have been set. (No copies hve ever been discovered.) ... Given as a keepsake by The Press of the Woolly Whale ... Mr. Cary's private press, which is responsible for the printing ... The binding was contributed by George McKibbin & Son ...

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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has sheet laid in.

OCLC:

10526606