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The Oriole Press : a bibliography, comprising book reviews, essays, unpublished letters by distinguished authors, bibliographical data, and the complete check list, profusely illustrated / compiled and printed by Joseph Ishill.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Oriole Press 1
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Ishill, Joseph.
- Oriole Press (Berkeley Heights, N.J.)--Bibliography.
- Oriole Press (Berkeley Heights, N.J.).
- Publishers and publishing--New Jersey--Berkeley Heights--History.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Small presses--New Jersey--Berkeley Heights--History.
- Small presses.
- Berkeley Heights (N.J.)--Imprints.
- Berkeley Heights (N.J.).
- New Jersey--Berkeley Heights.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Printers' devices (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kennerley.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cloister Oldstyle.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Eve.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 477 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U.S.A. : Published by The Oriole Press, 1953.
- Notes:
- The articles are chiefly in English, but also in German, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French, and Yiddish.
- "Edition limited to fifty copies, none for sale. Copy no. [blank]"--Title page verso.
- Some groups of pages vary in width.
- "The complete check list of the Oriole Press publications": Pages [437]-459.
- "Biblio-biographical notes": Pages [461]-476.
- "The entire book was handset with Garamond, Kennerley, Cloister Oldstyle & Eve types & printed on an old 'favorite' press. The various papers used for this book are all made in the United States. Joseph Ishill, typographer"--Colophon.
- Printed in multiple colors.
- "Bibliographical data": Pages 393-433.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is an unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 50 copies. See verso of title leaf.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 8699753
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