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The scarlet letter / by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; this edition illustrated with wood blocks designed and engraved by Valenti Angelo ...
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Valenti Angelo 54
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Illegitimate children--Fiction.
- Illegitimate children.
- Women immigrants--Fiction.
- Women immigrants.
- Married women--Fiction.
- Married women.
- Puritans--Fiction.
- Puritans.
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Revenge--Fiction.
- Revenge.
- Clergy--Fiction.
- Clergy.
- Adulteresses.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Leather bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Historical fiction.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 362, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House, Inc., 1928.
- Notes:
- "This edition is limited to 980 copies. This is copy number [blank]"--Preliminary page [3].
- Publisher's device in color on title leaf.
- Binding: quarter blind-ruled red morocco(?) over tan cloth; title, author's name, and publisher's device stamped in gold on spine; untrimmed edges.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 622 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 980 copies. See preliminary page [3].
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 977727
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