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A defence of the revival of printing / Charles Ricketts.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 289
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931, author.
Contributor:
Beale, G. A. (Gilbert Alexander), printer, publisher.
Cadenza Press, publisher, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Cadenza reprints on typography ; no. 5.
Cadenza reprints on typography ; no. 5
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Printing--History.
Printing.
Printing--England--London--Specimens.
1988.
England--London.
Local Subjects:
1988.
Genre:
Specimens.
History.
Private press books (Printing)
Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.
Langley (Paper).
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[36] pages (the 2nd and 4th pages blank) ; 19 cm
Place of Publication:
London : Cadenza Press, M.CM.LXXX.VIII [1988].
Notes:
Reprint, originally published: London : Hacon & Ricketts, 1899.
Title page printed in red and black.
"Printed and published at the Cadenza Press of G.A. Beale ... Bembo ... Langley hand-made ... about 100 copies"--Colophon.
Binding: brown paper wrappers, white paper label on front cover printed in black and red.
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:
154136688

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