Ishill's variorum : a compendium of thoughts and reflections, culled from Goudy's Ars typographica, and other literary sources / by Joseph Ishill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ishill, Joseph, compiler.

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, author.

Contributor:

Ishill, Joseph, typographer.

Oriole Press (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), publisher, printer.

S.D. Warren Company, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Collections.

Literature.

Genre:

Collections.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Autographs (Provenance)

Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Ishill, Joseph (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Thorsen, W. B. (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 201, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color, 1 mounted) portraits ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Ishill's variorum : a compendium of thoughts & reflections by authors through the centuries

Place of Publication:

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey : Published by The Oriole Press, [1963]

Notes:

"[A]rranged in multiple style of types, initials, cuts & ornaments too numerous to be described individually in this book some of these materials were used in previous publications issued by this private press edition limited to one hundred copies, printed on Warren Olde Style paper for private distribution. This is copy number [blank] autumn, 1963"--Colophon.

Printed in multiple colors.

Printer's device ("THE ORIOLE PRESS JOSEPH ISHILL TYPOGRAPHER") in green at colophon.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 24 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 100 copies. See colophon.

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 has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("To my dear friend W.B. Thorsen with the best from - Joseph Ishill June / 1964") recording the gift of this volume from Joseph Ishill to William Boerge Thorsen (1905-1990) on front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in typescript carbon copy of bookseller's description of this copy; announcement of 1966 exhibition of this work at the University of Florida Libraries (Gainesville, Fla.) in 1966; compliments card of The Oriole Press.

OCLC:

8713028