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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.
- 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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