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Kanga Creek : an Australian idyll / by Havelock Ellis ; embellished with seventeen woodengravings by Bernard Sleigh & Ivy Anne Ellis.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Oriole Press 7
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elementary school teachers--Fiction.
- Elementary school teachers.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- British--Australia--Fiction.
- British.
- Australia--Fiction.
- Australia.
- English fiction--20th century.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- X, [2], 112, [2] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley Heights, New Jersey : Published privately by the Oriole Press, MCMXXXVIII [1938]
- Notes:
- "Edition limited to two-hundred and fifty copies, printed on Arak paper. Copy No. [blank]"--Title page verso
- "Hand-set with the Garamond types, after completion the type-pages were destroyed & no plates made. October, MCMXXXVIII"--Colophon
- "[P]rinted in three colors; 250 copies on ash-white Arak paper, in boards w/buckram spine."--Ishill
- Deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed). Issued in printed paper dust jacket.
- Printer's device ("THE ORIOLE PRESS JOSEPH ISHILL TYPOGRAPHER") in orange at colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 45 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 250 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.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Cited in:
- Ishill, J. Oriole Press, 67
- OCLC:
- 11895180
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