The life of Our Lord / written during the years 1846-1849 by Charles Dickens for his children and now first published.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.

Contributor:

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941, book designer, printer.

Merrymount Press, printer.

Simon and Schuster, Inc., publisher.

Monotype Corporation, type designer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Jesus Christ.

Genre:

Biographies.

Juvenile works.

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) -- Lettre Batarde.

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Case bindings (Binding)

Gilt edges (Binding)

Slipcases (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Juvenile literature.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

x, [2], 128, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : facsimile ; 21 cm

Edition:

[Limited edition].

Manufacture:

Boston : The Merrymount Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1934.

Notes:

"This edition is specially designed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, and is limited to 2387 numbered copies, which are published simultaneously with the regular first trade edition. this copy is Number [blank]"--Colophon.

"Two prayers written by Charles Dickens for his young children": Pages [125]-128.

"Type, Caslon Monotype and Lettre Bararde."--Bianchi.

Printed in black and red.

Binding: blind-tooled white paper boards; title, author's surname, and edition statement stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges, with fore- and tail edges untrimmed; gilt tops. Housed in slip case with printed spine label (the copy number supplied in manuscript).

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 has laid in folded paper sheet with manuscript notes in pencil.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: pages 17-20 unopened at fore-edge.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.

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, 763 (page 271)

Smith, J.P. Merrymount Press (1975), 763

Carr. Dickens, B286

OCLC:

1038402031