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Friar Jerome's beautiful book, / by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Houghton 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--19th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Specimens.
- Vellum bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1896.
- Large paper printings (Publishing)
- Private press books (Printing)
- Arnold (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [15] folded leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Large paper edition
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press
- Place of Publication:
- Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896.
- Notes:
- Colophon : "Two hundred and fifty copies of this large-paper edition of Friar Jerome's beautiful book with special title-page, were printed on Arnold hand-made paper."
- Printed on one side of double leaves folded once in Japanese style.
- Rubricated.
- Publisher's red vellum binding, gilt.
- "Copyright, 1896, by Houghton, Mifflin & Company"--title page verso.
- 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 is number XXXVII [37].
- OCLC:
- 231332
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