" ... this horrid & gloomy scene" : a cheerful little essay on bad news and the human proclivity therefor as provided for its readers by the Newport, R.I., Mercury / with a foreword by Wilbur L. Doctor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doctor, Wilbur L., author of foreword.

Contributor:

Wayside Press, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newspaper reading.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type setting) -- Caslon Old Style.

Ingres Antique Laid (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[2], 7, [1] pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Kingston, R.I. : Wayside Press, MCMLXXXIII [1983].

Notes:

Edition limited to 125 copies.

"The text reprinted here appears in [No. 1167] Feb. 7, 1784, of The Newport Mercury ..."--Page 1

Composd in Caslon Old Style onto Ingres Antique Laid paper.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 1 has number 12. Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 has number 111.

OCLC:

40826422