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Quartet : four stories

Title: Quartet : four stories / Edith Wharton.
Author: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Publication: Kentfield, Calif. : Allen Press, 1975.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1975 06-405	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP+ (Allen) 76-54	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

126 p. : col. ill.; 34 cm.

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Romanée.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Dorchester Script.
Mosaic bindings (Binding) – United States – 20th century.

Note

"Edition limited to one hundred forty copies. The type face is Romanée, designed by Jan Van Krimpen for Joh. Enschedé en Zonen of the Netherlands and was set by hand; the display type is Dorchester Script. The all-rag paper is from St. Cuthberts Mill in England, and was hand-made to our specifications with the watermark of the Allen Press ... The binding cloth is Fortuny, hand-blocked in Venice. Designed, illustrated, printed and bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen"--P. [9].
"Produced by hand."
Pages [1-2] blank.

Binding (note)

Binding: Gray morocco with peach morocco inlays on both boards; peach morocco spine label, with author's name in gilt. By Hope Weil. In gray cloth solander case with peach morocco spine label, lined in gray suede. "Commissioned for the collection of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner"--Book label on back flyleaf.

Contents

Roman fever -- The other two -- The last asset -- Afterward.

Call Number

*KP+ (Allen) 76-54

LCCN

76378285

OCLC

2597969

Author

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Title

Quartet : four stories / Edith Wharton.

Imprint

Kentfield, Calif. : Allen Press, 1975.

Binding

Spencer Coll. copy: Binding: Gray morocco with peach morocco inlays on both boards; peach morocco spine label, with author's name in gilt. By Hope Weil. In gray cloth solander case with peach morocco spine label, lined in gray suede. "Commissioned for the collection of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner"--Book label on back flyleaf.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy: Gift of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner; with her book label.

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Allen, Lewis M. Printer

Allen, Dorothy, 1908- Printer

Allen Press. Printer

Weil, Hope G. Binder

Rosner, Maggy Magerstadt, 1923-2011, donor.

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Allen) 76-54

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1975 06-405

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