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I fioretti del glorioso poverello de Cristo S. Francesco di Assissi.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Ashendene 5
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Fioretti di San Francesco.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226--Legends.
- Francis.
- Genre:
- Private press books.
- Printers' devices.
- Printing in multiple colors.
- Vellum printings.
- Limitation statements.
- Deckled edges.
- Gold tooled bindings.
- Limp bindings.
- Silk ties.
- Untrimmed edges.
- Vellum bindings.
- Illustrated works.
- Autographs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], viij, 239, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Impresso nell'amena città di Chelsea sulla riva del Tamigi : Per opera e spese di St John Hornby nella sua Officina Privata di Ashendene, e finito felicemente il dì xij. di Febbrajo dell' anno del nostro Signore mcmxxij [12 February 1922]
- Notes:
- "Qui finisce il libro de' Fioretti di S. Francesco. Impresso nell'amena città di Chelsea sulla riva del Tamigi per opera e spese di St John Hornby nella sua Officina Privata di Ashendene e finito felicemente il dì xij. di Febbrajo dell' anno del nostro Signore mcmxxij. Laus Deo."--Colophon.
- "Di questa edizione vengono stampari 240 esemplari sopra carta & 12 esemplari sopra pergamena. Gli intagli in legno son l'opera di J. Swain dietro a' disegni di C.M. Gere."--Page [240].
- "[P]rinter's mark C, in red, p. 240"--Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press.
- "Printed on Batchelor paper with Hammer and Anvil water-mark. The chapter-headings and shoulder-notes are printed in red, and the initials of each chapter in red or blue ... Issued in a binding of limp vellum with green silk ties, the paper copies in white, the vellum copies in green ... It contains 53 illustrations ... by Charles M. Gere, which were cut on wood by J.B. Swain. The initial letters were designed by Graily Hewitt."--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 240 copies on paper bound in limp white vellum.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has 2 partially illegible autographs ("[...] Baisden" and "[...] Jackson") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV, Hornby, C.H.S. Ashendene Press, XXXI (page 76)
- OCLC:
- 903618321
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