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The love letters of Abelard and Heloise / translated from the original Latin and now reprinted from the edition of 1722, together with a brief account of their lives and work ; designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 216
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142, author.
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164, author.
Contributor:
Seymour, Ralph Fletcher, 1876-1966, book designer.
Bobbs-Merrill Company, publisher.
Geo. F. McKiernan & Company (Firm), active 1903, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Letters. English
Language:
English
Latin
Subjects (All):
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142--Correspondence.
Abelard, Peter.
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164--Correspondence.
Héloïse.
Abbesses, Christian--France--Correspondence.
Abbesses, Christian.
Theologians--France--Correspondence.
Theologians.
Love-letters.
love letters.
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
France.
Genre:
Personal correspondence.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
Private press books (Printing)
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
115, [1[ pages ; 24 cm
Manufacture:
[Place of publication not identified] : Geo. F. McKiernan & Company
Place of Publication:
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1903.
Notes:
Title page has illustrated border.
Printed in red and black.
"Reprinted from the translation of 1722 in an edition of five hundred and fifteen copies on paper ... at the press of Geo. F. McKiernan & Company from the designs and under the supervision of Ralph Fletcher Seymour for the publishers, the Bobbs-Merrill Company"--Colophon.
Rubricated throughout, with decorative borders (in the style of William Morris) on t.p. and first two pages of text.
Binding, title page, borders and initials designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour.
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.
OCLC:
8175596

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