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Jemima Condict, her book : being a transcript of the diary of an Essex County maid during the Revolutionary War.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1813
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Condict, Jemima, 1754-1779, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Condict, Jemima, 1754-1779.
- Condict, Jemima.
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- Orange (N.J.)--History--18th century.
- Orange (N.J.).
- Manners and customs.
- New Jersey--Orange.
- Genre:
- History
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kaatskill.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Deepdene.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 73, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration, facsimile ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Village Press
- Place of Publication:
- Newark, New Jersey : The Carteret Book Club, MCMXXX [1930].
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Notes:
- Introduction signed: W.M.S. (Wilbur Macey Stone).
- "Made for the Carteret Book Club of Newark New Jersey in an edition of 200 copies, by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press, Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y. ... set by Mrs. Goudy in 12 point 'Kaatskill' designed by Mr. Goudy, with type cast from matrices cut by them especially for this work. Also the 'Deepdene' italics were designed by Mr. Goudy. Printed in June, 1930."--Colophon.
- The author lived "on the western slope of the 'first mountain' about a mile west of Eagle Rock," and the diary contains many references to persons and events in Orange, New Jersey, the nearest town.
- Illustrated head- and tailpiece. Pages ruled in red throughout.
- 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 in protective wrapper.
- Cited in:
- Cary, M.B. Bibliography of the Village Press, 191
- OCLC:
- 5701280
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