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Excerpts from the Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 571
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Pickwick papers. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas stories.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Christmas stories--Selections.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Illustrated books.
- Gift books.
- christmas stories.
- illustrated books.
- Christmas stories (Dickens, Charles).
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Laurel Italic.
- Hammermill White textopaque Pearl Finish (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4],42, [4] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- Philadelphia : Typographic Service
- Other Title:
- Pickwick papers
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [Samuel A. Dalton], [1966]
- Notes:
- "How the Pickwickians made and cultivated the acquaintance of a couple of nice young men belonging to one of the liberal professions; how they disported themselves on the ice; and how their visit came to a conclusion."
- "Prepared as a Christmas greeting from Samuel A. Dalton"--Colophon
- In slipcase.
- Format and typography by Robert Donald. Design and illustrations by Rey Abruzzi. Text in sixteen point Laurel Italic. Printed by Typographic Service. Binding, Albert Oldach & Son. On Hammermill White Textopaque Pearl Finish. Thirteen hundred copies.--Colophon
- 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 number 695. Paper printed Christmas greeting laid in.
- OCLC:
- 26971077
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