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Descensus Averno : fourteen woodcuts reproduced from Sebastian Brant's Virgil, Strassburg, MDII /; elucidated and provided with a foreword by Anna Cox Brinton.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1632
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521, artist.
- Brinton, Anna Cox, author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeneas (Legendary character).
- Aeneas.
- Virgil. Aeneis--Illustrations.
- Virgil.
- Wood-engraving, German.
- Illustrated books--History--15th and 16th centuries--Facsimiles.
- Illustrated books.
- Epic poetry, Latin--Illustrations.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Aeneis (Virgil).
- Genre:
- works of art.
- Art
- Facsimiles
- History
- Illustrated works
- Art.
- Unopened books (Binding)
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence -- Caslon 471.
- Typefaces (Type evidence -- Caslon Black
- Typefaces (Type evidence -- Caslon Old Face.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [18] leaves : xiv plates ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford , Calif : Stanford University Press, 1930.
- London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
- Notes:
- Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with decriptive letterpress.
- "Selected list of modern reproductions of Brant's Vergilian woodcuts": verso of 4th leaf.
- "Of this book, 'Fourteen woodcuts, ' the first copy was issued from Stanford University Press November 15, 1930. Typography and design under the care of Hartley Jackson. Caslon 471 and Caslon Black were used for headings, and linotype Caslon Old Face for the text matter."--Colophon.
- Title page in red and black; initials in red.
- 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.
- OCLC:
- 1496829
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