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Vignettes : an eclectic assemblage of anecdotes about papermaking, the private press and its history, book collecting, Numismata typographica and much more
- Title
- Vignettes : an eclectic assemblage of anecdotes about papermaking, the private press and its history, book collecting, Numismata typographica and much more / Henry Morris.
- Author
- Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
- Publication
- Newtown, Pennsylvania : Bird & Bull Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Rare Books+ 21-519 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 72, [5] pages : illustrations (some color), samples; 36 cm +
- Alternative Title
- Vignettes volume II
- Broadside vignettes.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes.
- Bibliographies.
- Private press books (Publishing) – Pennsylvania – Newtown – 1999.
- Note
- "Volume II". Intended as a sequel to Broadside vignettes.
- In box; 2 clay impressions from Babylonian cylinder seals contained in box housing.
- "150 copies printed on Arches mouldmade paper at the Bird & Bull Press in August 1999. The book was composed in Erhardt types by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound at the Campbell-Logan bindery" -- colophon.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Indexed In (note)
- Berger, S.E. Bird & Bull
- Binding (note)
- Bound in publisher's sheepskin color cloth; leather spine label with title tooled in gold, issued with clamshell box covered in same cloth; lid of box has a compartment to contain the tablets.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Bird & Bull Incunabula, I -- Bird & Bull Incunabula, II -- Bird & Bull Incunabula, III -- 19th century security papers -- Rosenwald -- Tale of a trunk -- Numismata typographica -- Farewell to papermaking -- Mary Kettilby's cook book -- Lieutenant A.S. Rowan -- Pop goes the weasel -- Better late than never -- A history of die cutting -- The Würzburg lithography.
- Call Number
- Rare Books+ 21-519
- OCLC
- 42849026
- Author
- Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
- Title
- Vignettes : an eclectic assemblage of anecdotes about papermaking, the private press and its history, book collecting, Numismata typographica and much more / Henry Morris.
- Publisher
- Newtown, Pennsylvania : Bird & Bull Press, 1999.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Indexed In:
- Berger, S.E. Bird & Bull, A 62
- Binding
- Bound in publisher's sheepskin color cloth; leather spine label with title tooled in gold, issued with clamshell box covered in same cloth; lid of box has a compartment to contain the tablets. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Rare Books+ 21-519 is no. 140 of 150 copies; prospectus laid in at front.
- Added Author
- Bixler, Michael, compositor.Bixler, Winifred, compositor.Bird & Bull Press, printer, publisher.Arjo Wiggins Appleton (Firm), papermaker.Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.
- Spine Title
- Vignettes volume II
- Added Title
- Broadside vignettes.
- Research Call Number
- Rare Books+ 21-519