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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+ (Ascensius) 03-327	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

[5], 238, [4] p. : ill.; 32 cm.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Intertype Bulmer.

Note

45 copies printed.
Originally published: Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 1864.
"This book was composed on the Linotype in 14 point Intertype Bulmer by Scott Vile. The illustrations were drawn by Jon Luoma ... [The] paper [was] handmade by MacGregor and Vinzani of Whiting, Maine. The book was printed on a Vandercook Universal III by Put Smith and Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press, Portland, Maine"--Colophon.
Printed in black and dark green.
The ill. are reproductions of pen and ink drawings, printed from line blocks; comprise frontispiece, 3 headpieces and final vignette.
Binding: Publisher's dark green morocco, ruled in black and stamped in black with facsim. of Thoreau's autograph; dark red morocco spine label, gilt. "The binding was designed by Gray Parrot and Scott Vile at Gray Parrot's bookbinding shop in Hancock, Maine. The book is housed in a slipcase constructed of Maine white pine"--Colophon. Slipcase (35 cm.) is of natural pine with mahogany top and bottom.

Contents

Ktaadn -- Chesuncook -- The Allegash and East Branch.

Call Number

*KP+ (Ascensius) 03-327

OCLC

Author

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Title

The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau.

Imprint

[Portland, Maine] : Ascensius Press, 1998.

Local Note

NYPL copy is no. 18.

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Luoma, Jon. Illustrator

Vile, Scott, compositor, printer, binding designer.

Smith, Put. Printer

Parrot, Gray, binding designer. Binder

Ascensius Press. Publisher. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Ascensius) 03-327