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The isle of Pines, 1668 : an essay in bibliography / by Worthington Chauncey Ford.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Merrymount Press 5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neville, Henry, 1620-1694. Isle of pines.
- Neville, Henry.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Unopened edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, [1], 116, [2] pages, [15] leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- Boston : D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : The Club of Odd Volumes, 1920.
- Notes:
- "Text of the Isle of Pines, combined parts": Pages [51]-[87].
- "Edition limited to one hundred and fifty-one copies"--Page opposite title page.
- Title in black and red.
- "Type, Caslon and Janson."--Updike.
- Binding: quarter brown cloth over marbled paper boards; title, author's name and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges, with fore- and tail edges untrimmed.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [89]-109) and index.
- 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: many leaves unopened at head edge.
- Cited in:
- Updike, D.B. Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work, 523 (page 202)
- Contains:
- Neville, Henry, 1620-1694. Isle of pines.
- OCLC:
- 6731268
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