On the conversation of authors : from Hazlitt's essay ; which first appeared in the London Magazine, September, 1820; reprinted in his two-volume collection of essays entitled The Plain Speaker, in 1826.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830, author.

Contributor:

Tommasini, A. R. (Amadeo R.), printer, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Anecdotes.

Authors.

Private press books.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Linotype Estienne.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- American Type Founders Libra.

Strathmore Text Ivory (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[4], 25, [1] pages : illustrations ; 14 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Privately printed by A.R. Tommasini, Christmas, 1951.

Notes:

"Three hundred and fifty copies copies of the booklet have been printed December, 1951. The text is set in 10-point Linotype Estienne, the display and initials in American Type Founders Libra, and the decorations in Monotype ornament no. 1008. The paper is Strathmore Text ivory."--Colophon.

Holiday greetings slip laid in.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is unnumbered. Slip has message from A.R.T. on limited supply of work.

OCLC:

951812714