Songs of the press and other poems relative to the art of printing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black Pennell Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Printing--Poetry.

Printing.

Genre:

anthologies.

Case bindings.

Italic (typeface group)

moldmade paper.

Numbered limited editions.

Paper (fibre product) boards (binding components)

roman (upright typeface group)

Typefaces.

watermarks.

poems.

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon Old Face.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Libra.

Van Gelder (Paper)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

29, [1] pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Greenock [Strathclyde] : Black Pennell Press, 1983.

Notes:

Selected from a collection published under the same title, compiled by Charles Henry Timperley. 1833.

"A limited edition of 120 numbered copies, 100 of which are for sale"--Colophon.

"Hand-set in Caslon Old Face and Libra types, and printed on Van Gelder mouldmade paper ..."'--Colophon.

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 34. Also, has four page prospectus for the work laid in.

ISBN:

0946642109

9780946642106

OCLC:

12080324