Excerpts from the Pickwick papers : too full of adventure to be briefly described / Charles Dickens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author..

Contributor:

Dalton, Samuel A., publisher.

Donald, Robert, book designer, typographer.

Abruzzi, Rey, illustratior.

Typographic Service (Philadelphia, Pa.), compositor.

Gaebel & Sons, 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):

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Linotype Palatino.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[4], 32, [4] pages : color illustrations, 2 folded color plates ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Philadelphia : Typographic Service

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Samuel A. Dalton], [1963]

Notes:

Bound in brown buckram, cover illustrated in black and gold; spine stamped in gold.

Printed in green, brick and gold throughout.

Green leaf illustrations throughout.

In green protective slipcase.

"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

Format and typography, Robert Donald. Design and illustrations, Rey Abruzzi. Text in Linotype Palantino. Printed letterpress by Typographic Service Inc. Hammermill white text opaque pearl finish. Binding, Kurt Gaebel & Sons.

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 320. In slipcase. 2 folded plates wanting.

OCLC:

29485680