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Apology for printers : including, On the providence of God in the government of the world.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 599
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.
- Morris, Charles V., author of foreword.
- Series:
- Typophiles monograph ; 85.
- Printing week library of Benjamin Franklin keepsakes ; 15th.
- Typophiles monograph ; no. 85
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of the press--Early works to 1800.
- Freedom of the press.
- Providence and government of God--Early works to 1800.
- Providence and government of God.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Keepsakes.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Weyerhauser Victorian (Paper).
- Weyerhauser Louvaine Supreme (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 33 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Manufacture:
- [New York] : Eilert Printing
- Other Title:
- On the providence of God in the government of the world
- Place of Publication:
- New York : [publisher not identified], 1967.
- Notes:
- "Privately printed."
- "This keepsake is published in connection with the celebration of Printing Week in New York, 1967, commemorating the 261st birthday of Benjamin Franklin, printer"--Page [iv].
- "A. Burton Carnes, The A.B.C. Press, designer; John De Pol, Endgrain Press, wood engravings; M.J. Baumwell, typography, typesetting; Eilert Printing Company, printer; Flower Steel Electrotype Co., electrotypes; Edison Photo Engraving Co., engraving; Fisher Bookbinding Co., bookbinding; paper for cover is Weyerhauser Victorian text; paper for end sheets and text is Weyerhauser Louvaine Supreme text."--Page [iii].
- Foreword signed by Charles V. Morris.
- 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.
- Contains:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. On the providence of God in the government of the world.
- OCLC:
- 32018021
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