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AEsop's fables / retold, illustrated with woodcuts, and printed by Elfriede Abbe.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 140
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aesop, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fables.
- fables.
- Fables, Greek--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Limitation statements.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Abbe, Elfriede, 1919-2012 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 70, [2] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : [Press of Elfriede Abbe], 1950.
- Notes:
- "The woodcuts ... were printed directly from the original blocks. The text was printed from hand-set type. Five hundred copies were made."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- 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 is number 104. In a case with one other book (Misc 139).
- OCLC:
- 2428057
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