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LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1839
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Volk, Kurt H. (Kurt Hans), 1883-1962, typographer, printer, designer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 17 folded leaves in 1 box. : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Kurt H. Volk, [1945]
- Contents:
- Ruth I, 16-17.
- Genesis LV.
- Ave Maria, by C. Gounod.
- The oath of a freeman.
- Letter from Napoleon.
- Hamlet III, i.
- The happy man, by B. Franklin.
- Psalm XXIII.
- Of great place, by F. Bacon.
- Gettysburg address.
- Bill of rights.
- Nursery rhymes.
- Speech before Virginia convention, by P. Henry.
- The Lord's Prayer.
- Abou Ben Adhem.
- Gems, by O. Wilde.
- Notes:
- Examples of fine printing.
- 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:
- 12711788
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