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Mimpish squinnies : Reginald Farrer's short guide to worthless plants / Reginald Farrer ; engravings by Abigail Rorer & an introduction by Maureen Sanderson.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrer, Reginald, 1880-1920, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants.
- Rock gardens.
- Weeds.
- Fine books--Massachusetts--Petersham--Specimens.
- Fine books.
- Wood-engraving--Specimens.
- Wood-engraving.
- Alpine gardens.
- Massachusetts--Petersham.
- Genre:
- wood engravings (prints)
- color wood engravings.
- Wood engravings
- Specimens
- Wood engravings.
- Artists' books.
- Illustrated works.
- Color printing (Printing)
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Misc 1973)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Misc 1973)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Petersham [Mass.] : Lone Oak Press, 2007.
- Notes:
- "Forty signed and numbered copies of this book were produced from the spring of 2006 to the spring of 2007. Michael Russem of Kat Ran Press, Florence, Massachusetts, designed and printed the text on kozo papers. The Fairbank type was set by Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York. The engravings were printed and hand-colored by Abigail Rorer of The Lone Oak Press, Petersham, Massachusetts. Mark Tomlinson of Easthampton, Massachusetts, bound the book. Ten deluxe copies are accompanied by an extra suite of the prints as a boxed set"--Colophon
- Issued in a clamshell box. Three-piece case (Bradel) binding. Title stamped on leather onlay on cover. Paper wrapped boards, leather spine.
- Local Notes:
- Misc 1973: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck. Edition number 9 of 40. Abigail Rorer's pencil autograph on colophon page. Publisher's business card and announcement for this title laid in.
- OCLC:
- 271457338
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