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Quattrocentisteria : how Sandro Botticelli saw Simonetta in the spring / written by Maurice Hewlett ; decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Valenti Angelo 25
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewlett, Maurice, 1861-1923, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510--Fiction.
- Botticelli, Sandro.
- Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Printers' devices (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gilt edges (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Slipcases (Binding)
- Vellum bindings (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Autographs (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 21, [1] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Place of printing not identified] : Printed by the Walpole Printing Office.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Golden Cross Press, MCMXXXVII [1937]
- Notes:
- Originally published as a chapter in Earthwork out of Tuscany (1895).
- "This edition of Quattrocentisteria is limited to one hundred and seventy-five copies, and has been designed, decorated, & illuminated by Valenti Angelo. Printed by the Walpole Printing Office for the Golden Cross Press of New York. This copy is no. [blank] [Signature of Valenti Angelo]"--Colophon
- Printer's device at colophon.
- Binding: half parchment over blue paper boards; gold-stamped spine title; gilt tops; deckled edges, with fore- and tail edges untrimmed. Housed in slip case.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 70 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 175 copies, signed by Valenti Angelo. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.
- OCLC:
- 12326763
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