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Patriarch tree : thirty poems / by Raïssa Maritain ; translated into English by a Benedictine of Stanbrook ; with a preface by Robert Speaight = Arbre patriarche : trente poèmes / de Raïssa Maritain ; traduits en Anglais par une Bénédictine de Stanbrook ; avec une préface de Robert Speaight.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Stanbrook 7
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maritain, Raïssa, author.
- Speaight, Robert, 1904-1976, author of preface.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Religious poetry, French--Translations into English.
- Religious poetry, French.
- French poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Religious poetry.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Romanée.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, [5], 81, [7] pages : portrait ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- Worcester : Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1964-1965.
- Other Title:
- Arbre patriarche : trente poèmes
- Place of Publication:
- Worcester : Stanbrook Abbey Press, MCMLXV [1965]
- Language Note:
- Parallel French and English texts.
- Notes:
- Portrait of Raïssa Maritain on page [4] in the unnumbered pages.
- Printed in black and red with green capitals in first poem.
- "The edition of 550 copies comprises: copies numbers I-XX, bound in full leather with Japanese endpapesr & slip-case, copy number 1 specially bound for His Holiness Pope Paul VI; copies numbers XXI-L, sheets only for special binding; copies numbers 1-500, bound in quarter leather with Japanese sides, endpapers & slip-cases"--Colophon.
- "This book is handset in Jan van Krimpen's Romanée type, printed by the Stanbrook Abbey Press during 1964 & 1965 on Barcham Green's 'Eltham' handmade paper and bound by George Percival of Leicester. The portrait is lithographed by Messrs W.S. Cowell Ltd of Ipswich & the title devices are by Margaret Adams"--Colophon.
- Includes a bibliography of the works of Raïssa Maritain and works in English translations.
- 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 is number 84. In protective wrapper and slipcase.
- OCLC:
- 1134458294
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