Billets-doux : being an exquisite nosegay, or posy, now newly pluckt from popular letter-writing manuals of yore, that is to say, the early nineteenth century. Here offered as an edifying guide to affairs of the heart for the amorous, the pestered, or the merely confused / Prickly Pair Editions.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reisbord, Coriander, illustrator, bookbinder.

Peavy, Asa, printer.

Bixler, Michael, compositor .

Bixler, Winifred, compositor.

Wieck, Roger S., associated name, former owner.

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- associated name, former owner.

Prickly Pair Editions

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love-letters.

Letter writing--Humor.

Letter writing.

American wit and humor.

love letters.

Genre:

Humor

Private press books (Printing)

Physical Description:

21 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[New Haven, Conn.] : Prickly Pair Editions, 1998.

Notes:

Decorated title page, frontispiece, and page decorations.

Titles printed in red.

"The fourth & final title from Prickly Pair Editions."--prospectus.

"Printed in an edition of forty-five copies. The type is Walbaum, machine-set by Michael & Winifred Bixler ... Decorations and binding by Coriander Reisbord; typography and printing by Asa Peavy"--Colophon

Local Notes:

Bound in gold cloth boards with inset cover decoration and label.

Misc 1985: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck. Publisher's prospectus laid in.

OCLC:

41489778