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Faust : three excerpts reprinted from a Caxton Club book of 1953 / Harry J. Owens translated it from a German puppet play adding the ethos and dialogue of the Chicago working class ; Victor Hammer had planned it ; with Fritz Kredel woodcuts ; presswork by Jacob Hammer ; binding by Elizabeth Kner.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1772
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Faust. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faust, -approximately 1540--Drama.
- Faust.
- Puppet plays.
- Faust, -approximately 1540.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Ludlow Eusebius
- Mohawk (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 (some color) ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Chicago morality play
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston [Ill.] : Turtle Press, 1989.
- Notes:
- "Three excerpts reprinted from a Caxton Club book of 1953."
- "About a hundred copies have been printed as a 1989 Typocrafter keepsake at The Turtle Press in Evanston by Pam and Bruce Beck. It was printed on the sheets remaining in the Mohawk warehouse from a special making for the Limited Editions Club. The type is handset Ludlow Eusebius and the Kredel illustrations were printed from photo-engraved blocks."--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.
- OCLC:
- 23980397
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