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A keepsake printed in the year of the five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing and commemorating the thirty-fifth year since the inauguration of the Society of Printers / being the address of William Dana Orcutt, Esqr., at the first meeting of the Society, February 24, 1905.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Merrymount Press 12
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orcutt, William Dana, 1870-1953, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Society of Printers (Boston, Mass.).
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bulmer.
- Occasional addresses.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 7, [1] pages ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Boston] : Printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, in the month of May 1940.
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : [The Society of Printers], [1940]
- Notes:
- Title in black and red. Printer's device at colophon.
- "This edition, limited to 300 copies, is arranged and printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston in the month of May 1940. This is number [blank]"--Colophon.
- "Type, Bulmer Monotype."--Bianchi.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 167 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 300 copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Bianchi, D.B. "Bibliographical list: books printed at the press, 1934-1949." In Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work (1975 edition), 271-346, 883 (page 302)
- OCLC:
- 2820550
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