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Richard Barnfield's sonnets.

LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Old Stile 26
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Private press books (Printing)
  • Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
  • Limitation statements (Publishing)
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Perpetua.
  • Case bindings (Binding)
  • Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
  • Silver tooled bindings (Binding)
  • Slipcases (Binding)
  • Illustrated works.
  • Poems.
  • Autographs (Provenance)
Penn Provenance:
  • Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
  • Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
  • Hicks-Jenkins, Clive (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[46] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 x 30 cm
Place of Publication:
[Llandogo] : [Old Stile Press], [2001]
Notes:
  • "All the images that appear within this book and those that are used in its binding are by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. The printing was completed, in the early months of 2001, by Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press, Catchmays Court, Llandogo, Monmouthshire ... The Perpetua types were generated by computer and polymer blocks were used throughout to print the book by letterpress. The paper is 300gsm Somerset Printmaking. Copies were bound at The Fine Bindery ... The edition is limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. This is number [blank]"--Colophon.
  • "Perpetua type, printed on 300gsm Somerset printmaking paper. 24 two-colour line drawings hand-printed from photopolymer blocks. Casebound in blue paper printed with images by the artist; spine titling blocked in silver; endpapers printed with designs by the artist. Green cloth slipcase blocked in black with an enlargement of the poet's signature, including a cut-away spyhole through which part of the cover can be seen. Bound by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough ... 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist."--Campbell.
Local Notes:
  • Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 26 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. 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.
Cited in:
Campbell, N. Old Stile Press-- the next 10 years, page 30
ISBN:
  • 0907664539
  • 9780907664536
OCLC:
47824461

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