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The Nyum-nyum : an anonymous poem / illustrated with woodcuts by Suzette Morton.

LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Alderbrink 6
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Private press books (Printing)
  • Limitation statements (Publishing)
  • Deckled edges (Paper)
  • Handmade papers (Paper)
  • Unopened edges (Paper)
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cloister Old Style.
  • Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
  • Untrimmed edges (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)
  • Morton, Suzette Preston (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
  • Eccles, Mary Hyde Eccles, Viscountess, 1912-2003 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[20] leaves : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Manufacture:
[Chicago] : Printed ... at the Alderbrink Press, Chicago, in the month of May, 1935.
Place of Publication:
Chicago : Privately printed, MCMXXXV [1935]
Notes:
"This edition, designed & illustrated with cuts on the wood by Suzette Preston Morton, consists of 75 signed & numbered copies printed in Cloister Old Style type on Casinensis Italian hand-made paper at the Alderbrink Press, Chicago, in the month of May, 1935. Number [blank]"--Colophon.
Local Notes:
  • Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 14 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 75 signed and numbered copies. See colophon.
  • Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
  • Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript presentation inscription ("To M.M.C. -With love I inscribe this Morton primitive SP") from the illustrator to Mary Hyde Eccles on front free endpaper.
  • Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in decorative paper boards; printed paper spine label with title; olive green endpaper; deckled edges, untrimmed; leaves unopened at head edge.
OCLC:
3247244

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