Vita di Santa Chiara vergine / composta per Ugolino Verino ... ; reprinted from the original manuscript with an introduction and notes by Walter W. Seton.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Verino, Ugolino, 1438-1516, author.

Contributor:

• Seton, Walter W. (Walter Warren), 1882-1927, editor.
• Hornby, Charles Harry St. John, 1867-1946, printer.
• Ashendene Press, printer.
• Joseph Batchelor & Son, papermaker.
• Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

• English
• Italian

Subjects (All):

• Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• Private press books.
• Printing in multiple colors.
• Vellum printings.
• Facsimiles.
• Limitation statements.
• Deckled edges.
• Clamshell boxes.
• Gold tooled bindings.
• Limp bindings.
• Silk ties.
• Untrimmed edges.
• Bookplates.

Penn Provenance:

• Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
• Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
• Maxwell, William, 1873-1957 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 95, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

[Chelsea] : Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea ..., 1921.

Place of Publication:

Chelsea : At the Ashendene Press, MDCCCCXXI [1921]

Language Note:

Text in Italian; introduction in English.

Notes:

• "Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, in the County of London, and finished this seventh day of May of the year 1921."--Colophon.
• "Of this edition there have been printed 236 copies on paper & 10 copies on vellum."--Page [96].
• "Printed on Batchelor paper with Bugle water-mark, in black and red, with a few initials in blue. A facsimile of the first two leaves of the original manuscript is inserted after the introduction ... Issued in a binding of limp white vellum with green silk ties."--Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press.
• Title stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is one of a limited edition of 236 copies printed on paper. See page [96].
• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has illustrated bookplate of William Maxwell on front pastedown.
• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy housed in clamshell case.
• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in publisher's prospectus for Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV (dated January 1935) and small paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy.

Cited in:

• Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV, Hornby, C.H.S. Ashendene Press, XXX (pages 73-74)
• Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2253

OCLC:

1978017