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The vision of Mirzah / by Joseph Addison.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection John Henry Nash 8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English essays.
- Genre:
- essays.
- Essays.
- Private press books.
- Printing in multiple colors.
- Limitation statements.
- Deckled edges.
- Type evidence -- Cloister Oldstyle.
- Case bindings.
- Untrimmed edges.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], v, [3], 11, [3] pages : portrait ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, MDCCCCXVII [1917]
- Notes:
- "From the edition of Addison's Works printed by John Baskerville, Birmingham, Mdcclxi"--Title page verso.
- "Three hundred copies of this book have been printed by John Henry Nash. The portrait is by Dan Sweeney. San Francisco, California, August, Mdccccxvii. No. [blank]"--Colophon.
- "Side-heads printed in red. Cloister Oldstyle type. Kelmscott paper."--O'Day.
- Binding: quarter tan cloth over blue boards; deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed); printed spine label.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 101 (the copy number supplied with a blue ink stamp) of a limited edition of 300 copies. See colophon.
- 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: leaves unopened at head edges.
- Cited in:
- O'Day, N. Catalogue of books printed by John Henry Nash, page 5
- OCLC:
- 1193262
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