Wander-wood ; and other poems for children / by Vincent Torre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torre, Vincent, author, illustrator, book designer, printer.

Contributor:

Inkwell Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry.

Genre:

Letterpress printing.

wire watermarks.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[10], 77, [3] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : At The Inkwell Press, 1967.

Summary:

Forty-four poems in rhyming verse for children.

Notes:

Vincent Torre founded The Inkwell Press in New York City.

"One hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed on French handmade paper. The type is Garamond, handset. This is copy number ..."--Colophon.

Plates are black and white illustrations printed within ornamental color borders.

Wire watermark on some leaves reads: Warren H Colson Boston.

Issued in red slipcase.

Local Notes:

Green cloth; silhouette of ginkgo leaf stamped in dark olive green on cover.

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 has number 10.

OCLC:

6150360