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Quis desiderio --? / Samuel Butler.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book thefts.
- Books--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
- Books.
- Genre:
- Wood engravings -- 1987.
- Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Marlborough -- 20th century.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bell.
- Amatrude (Paper).
- Fabriano Roma (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [20] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, England : Libanus Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- The author muses on authorship and books and compares the loss of a favorite book in the British Museum to the loss described in William Wordsworth's poem "Lucy."
- Notes:
- Wood engravings by Phillida Gili; 475 copies printed. Set in Monotype Bell. Printed on Amatruda paper. cover paper is Fabriano Roma. -- Colophon.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0948021136
- 9780948021138
- OCLC:
- 17859779
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