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The silver swan.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Incline Press 23
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swans--Poetry.
- Swans.
- English poetry--17th century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Hyperion.
- Poems.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4] pages : 1 color illustration ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- Oldham ... England : Printed ... by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen.
- Place of Publication:
- Oldham ... England : Incline Press, 2000.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- "The author of this poem is unknown, but it was written circa 1612: The cut is one supplied by Jo Spaul ... Hyperion type designed by Berthold Wolpe. Printed for Parenthesis & subscribers to the press by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen at Incline Press 11 A Printer Street Oldham ... England Of a hundred and forty copies, this is number [blank]"--Colophon.
- Text in black and illustration in green.
- "February 2000 / Parenthesis 4"--Page [4].
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 82 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 140 copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 1390817535
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