The ascent of Mount Ventoux : a letter from Petrarch / translation by James Harvey Robinson ; John DePol, wood engraving.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, author.

Contributor:

DePol, John, 1913-2004, engraver.

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, type designer.

Petrarch Press, publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Ad Dyonisium de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri ... de curis propriis. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Travel--France--Ventoux Mountain.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Ventoux Mountain (France)--Description and travel.

Ventoux Mountain (France).

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Travel.

France--Ventoux Mountain.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penshurst (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Arrighi.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

DePol, John, 1913-2004 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6],11, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Petrarch Press, 1989.

Notes:

"Ten copies, numbered 1-10 were printed on sheepskin parchment, sixty (11-70) on handmade penshurst paper and one hundred and ten (71-180) on all-cotton arches text. John DePol ... has signed each copy"--Colophon.

Centaur and Arrighi typefaces.

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 59. In protective wrapper.

OCLC:

31970299