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A Lear song: "The broom, the shovel, the poker, and the tongs"

Title: A Lear song: "The broom, the shovel, the poker, and the tongs" / foreword by Philip Hofer.
Author: Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Publication: [Locust Valley, N.Y.] : Four Winds Press, 1977.

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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	Restricted use	*KP (Four Winds) 06-183	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll 78-130	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

[13] p. : ill., facsims.; 20 x 24 cm.

Note

"The design, hand setting & hand printing were done by Henry Schniewind at the Four Winds Press. The type is Palatino. 150 copies completed in 1977 ... The paste paper was made for this book by Carol J. Blinn. The binding is by Gray Parrot"--Colophon.
Contains transcription of a letter by Lear, dated Oct. 18, 1868, including an early illustrated ms. version of "The broom, the shovel, the poker, and the tongs," together with a facsimile of the letter ([2] sheets in pocket inside lower cover).
A later version of the song was published in Lear's Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets (London, 1871).
The original letter is now in Harvard University's Houghton Library.
"An informal bibliography of the Hofer-Lear books in the library at the Four Winds Press": p. [11].
Erratum slip in pocket with facsim.

Binding (note)

Call Number

*KP (Four Winds) 06-183

LCCN

84249524

OCLC

NYPG784613777-B

Author

Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.

Title

A Lear song: "The broom, the shovel, the poker, and the tongs" / foreword by Philip Hofer.

Imprint

[Locust Valley, N.Y.] : Four Winds Press, 1977.

Binding

Binding: Publisher's quarter green morocco and green paste paper boards.

Local Note

Prospectus ([4] p. on folded sheet, in envelope) laid into copy in *KP.

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Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984.

Schniewind, Henry. Printer

Blinn, Carol J. Papermaker

Parrot, Gray. Binder

Four Winds Press. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP (Four Winds) 06-183

Berg Coll 78-130