The first day's journey and the first evening's adventures with their consequences : excerpts from the Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.

Contributor:

Dalton, Samuel A., publisher.

Typographic Service (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.

Albert Oldach & Son, binder.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Pickwick papers. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Societies and clubs--Fiction.

Men.

England--Fiction.

England.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Cochin.

Strathmore White Fairfield Opaque (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 45, [3] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Philadelphia : Typographic Service

Other Title:

Excerpts from the Pickwick papers

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia : Samuel A. Dalton, 1963]

Notes:

Bound in cream buckram illustrated in gold ; cover stamped in red ; spine stamped in gold.

Printed in black, red and gold throughout.

"Excerpts from the Pickwick papers by Charles Dickens was prepared as a Christmas greeting from Samuel A. Dalton ... Thirteen hundred copies were printed this being number ---" -- Colophon.

Text: twelve point Monotype Cochin. Printed letterpress, Typographic Service, Inc. 0n Strathmore White Fairfield Opaque. Binding, Albert Oldach & Son.

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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is is number 557. In slip case.

OCLC:

1153425573