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An excerpt from Goethe's Faust.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1810
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust--English--Selections--Illustrations.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- Faust (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von).
- Genre:
- Linocuts.
- Drama.
- Illustrated works.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Weiss.
- Japan (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Amberger, F. L. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Kolb, W. E. (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Excerpt from Goethe's Faust.
- Faust
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Village Square Press, 1931.
- Contents:
- Spring
- Wagner
- Dance and song of peasants under the linden-tree.
- Notes:
- Double leaf preceding title page has title "Spring".
- Limited edition of seventy numbered copies. Another edition was published in the same year by the Division of Graphic Art at New York University in collaboration with Otto W. Fuhrmann.
- "This book contains An Excerpt from Goethe's Faust, Part I, Scene 2. Designed, illustrated, hand-set in Weiss type, hand-printed on Japan paper, and hand-bound by F.L. Amberger and Fritz Peters"--Colophon.
- Double leaves of Japanese paper sewn to tapes and bound in handmade paper over boards. Linocut illustrations in shades of green, yellow, and red. Letterpress printed.
- 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 36. Also an inscription: "To Mr. W. E. Kolb from the designer F. L. Amberger."
- OCLC:
- 934853776
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