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A catalogue of books printed by John Henry Nash / compiled and annotated, including a biographical note, by Nell O'Day ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Day, Nell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947--Catalogs.
- Nash, John Henry.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Imprints.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947.
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- bibliographies.
- Bibliographies.
- Catalogs.
- Private press books.
- Limitation statements.
- Deckled edges.
- Binding labels.
- Case bindings.
- Marbled paper bindings.
- Untrimmed edges.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Levison, Alice Gerstle, 1873-1973 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Levison, J. B. (Jacob Bertha), 1862-1947 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], xiii, [1], 100, [2] pages : portrait ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : Printed by John Henry Nash.
- Other Title:
- A catalogue of the Nash printings
- Nash printings
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : [publisher not identified], 1937.
- Notes:
- "Of this book five hundred copies have been printed by John Henry Nash in the month of June, 1937. Originally intended to include a representative selection of broadsides, a survey of those produced during the past twenty years disclosed so large a volume, it has been found necessary to confine the contents of this catalogue to books and brochures."--Colophon.
- "A biographical note concerning the printer": Pages v-xiii.
- Binding: marbled paper boards; deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed); gold-stamped red leather spine label.
- 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 signed by John Henry Nash on front pastedown.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS ALICE & J.B. LEVISON") of Alice Gerstle Levison (1873-1973) and Jacob Bertha Levison (1862-1947) on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 6766736
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