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The animals of Saint Gregory / by Brian O'Malley ; with a foreward by Jean Leclerq ; and fourteen wood engravings by Simon Brett.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1148
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Malley, Brendan (Brian Brendan), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
- Gregory.
- Spiritual life--Catholic Church.
- Spiritual life.
- Monastic and religious life.
- Bestiaries.
- bestiaries.
- Local Subjects:
- Bestiaries.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Zerkall (Paper).
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain -Wieck Collection copy)
- O'Malley, Brendan (Brian Brendan) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Brett, Simon, 1943- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 97, [5] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- Wellingborough, Northants, England : Skelton's Press
- Place of Publication:
- Rhandirmwyn, Wales : Paulinus Press, 1981.
- Notes:
- "One of eighty special copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. The text is printed offset-litho in 'Monophoto' Baskerville. The wood engravings by Simon Brett are printed letterpress from the original blocks. The lettering for the title and chapter openings is reproduced from drawings by Michael Harvey"--Colophon.
- "Twenty-five copies, numbered 1 to 25, signed by the author and artist, bound in quarter-leather, are accompanied by one signed set and one unsigned set of the engravings, proofed by the artist on japon"--Colophon.
- "Fifty-five copies, numbered 26 to 80, signed by the author and artist, bound in quarter-cloth, are accompanied by one unsigned set of the engravings."--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.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 74. Extra set of engravings wanting. In slipcase.
- ISBN:
- 0907740014
- 9780907740018
- 0907740006
- 9780907740001
- 0907740022
- 9780907740025
- 0907740030
- 9780907740032
- OCLC:
- 17263988
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