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The prayers of Doctor Samuel Johnson / edited by W.A. Bradley.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1052
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, author.
- Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939, author of introduction..
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prayers.
- Genre:
- Prayers.
- Publishers' paper bindings (Binding) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Prayer books.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain -Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 108, [2] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : McClure Press
- Other Title:
- Half-title: Prayers of Dr. Samuel Johnson
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McClure, Phillips and Company, 1902.
- Notes:
- "Decorations by William Jordan"--Title page verso
- Title-page vignette, ornamental initials and vignettes in purple ink.
- "Published November, MCMII ..."--Title page verso
- Aquatint photogravure: frontispiece portrait; from an engraving by James Watson after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
- Frontispiece has guardsheet.
- Introductory note: pages 83-88; signed William Aspenwall Bradley.
- "Of this book there have been printed at the McClure press seven hundred and fifty copies in three editions, as follows: Five hundred copies on machine-made paper which are numbered from two hundred and fifty-one to seven hundred and fifty. Two hundred copies on English hand-made paper from the Kelmscott mills which are numbered from fifty-one to two hundred and fifty; and fifty copies on imperial Japan vellum which are numbered from one to fifty."
- Bound in light brownish gray paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
- 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 has number 688. In slipcase. Leaves uncut.
- OCLC:
- 38560726
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