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Venice visited : being a dozen extracts from the journal of Thomas Coryat, who, in the early seventeenth century, walked from Somerset to Venice and back
- Title
- Venice visited : being a dozen extracts from the journal of Thomas Coryat, who, in the early seventeenth century, walked from Somerset to Venice and back / decorated in the pochoir manner by John Thornton.
- Author
- Coryate, Thomas, approximately 1577-1617.
- Publication
- Bath : Old School Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Rare Books 18-5542 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Description
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Pochoir gouaches – England – 1999.
- Roman (upright typeface group) – Caslon's Old Face – England – 1999.
- Private press books – England – Bath – 1999.
- Note
- "Venice visited is hand-set in 22 pt Caslon Old Face from the Stephenson Blake foundry and printed on dampened hand-made paper from Sheepstor mill. The pochoir illustrations were designed and executed by John Thornton. The edition was bound by Rachel James in covers of hand-blocked paper by Albert Valese, Venice."--Colophon.
- Arrangement by Martyn Ould.
- Decorative printed paper boards with printed spine title label. Leaves are untrimmed.
- Binding (note)
- Bound in publisher's decorative printed paper boards with printed spine title label. Leaves are untrimmed..
- Call Number
- Rare Books 18-5542
- ISBN
- 1899933042
- 9781899933044
- OCLC
- 1008342107
- Author
- Coryate, Thomas, approximately 1577-1617.
- Title
- Venice visited : being a dozen extracts from the journal of Thomas Coryat, who, in the early seventeenth century, walked from Somerset to Venice and back / decorated in the pochoir manner by John Thornton.
- Imprint
- Bath : Old School Press, 1999.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Binding
- Bound in publisher's decorative printed paper boards with printed spine title label. Leaves are untrimmed.. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Rare Books 18-5542 is no. 28/50.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- James, Rachel, binder.Ould, Martyn A., 1948- book designer, printer.Thornton, John, 1946- illustrator.Old School Press, publisher.Sheepstor Handmade Papers, Ltd., papermaker.
- Research Call Number
- Rare Books 18-5542