Speedwell : six poems / by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanbrook Abbey, author.

Contributor:

Stanbrook Abbey. Press, printer, publisher.

J. Barcham Green, Ltd., papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Roman (upright typeface group -- England -- Romanée -- 1966.

Roman (upright typeface group) -- Romulus -- England -- 1966.

poems.

Private press books.

Handmade papers (fibre products)

Letterpress printing.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Romanée.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Romulus.

Barcham Green's Maidstone (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[4], 7, [1] pages : [1] color illustration ; 15 cm

Place of Publication:

Worcester : Printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1966.

Contents:

Speedwell

A February day

Germander speedwell

Lady's slipper

Quasi flos agri

Levavi oculos meos in montes.

Notes:

Private press book.

The poems are by Dame Teresa Pawle and Dame Scholastica Hebgin.

"Handset in Romanée & Romulus open capitals and printed in England at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, on Barcham Green's Maidstone handmade paper, August 1966"--Colophon.

Line block reproduction of the speedwell device on title page. Speedwell device printed in gold on front cover.

Blue/grey card covers; sewn binding.

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.

Cited in:

Butcher, David. The Stanbrook Abbey Press, A15

OCLC:

913413357