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Four portrait busts

Title
Four portrait busts / by Francesco Laurana ; photographs by Clarence Kennedy, with an introductory biographical essay by Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy.
Author
Laurana, Francesco, approximately 1420-1502
Publication
Northampton, Massachusetts : Gehenna Press, MCMLXII [1962]

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Additional Authors
  • Kennedy, Clarence
  • Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood, 1896-1968
  • McGrath, Harold
  • Gehenna Press, printer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt
  • Meriden Gravure Company, printer of plates. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pop
  • Carta di Amalfi, papermaker. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ppm
  • Tovil Paper Mills, papermaker. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ppm
Description
37 unnumbered pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations; 26 cm
Series Statement
Gehenna essays in art ; first volume
Uniform Title
Gehenna essays in art ; 1.
Subject
  • Laurana, Francesco, approximately 1420-1502
  • Sculptors > Italy > Biography
  • Busts, Renaissance > Italy
  • Busts, Renaissance
  • Sculptors
  • Italy
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Centaur (Monotype)
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Arrighi.
  • Paper evidence (Paper) – Amalfi.
  • Paper evidence (Paper) – Tovil.
Note
  • "Five hundred copies of this first volume in the Gehenna Essays in Art have been printed at the Gehenna Press in Northampton, Massachusetts. The pressman was Harold McGrath. The plates have been printed at the Meriden Gravure Co., in Meriden, Connecticut. The text has been set in monotype Centaur and Arrighi types and printed on Amalfi, a handmade Italian paper; the plates on Tovil handmade in England. Fifty copies have been specially bound at the Harcourt Bindery in one-half oasis niger and are lettered I-L"--Colophon.
  • Rare Book Book Arts copy: No. X. Cased with an additional suite of plates.
  • Rare Book AIGA copy: No. 278.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).
LCCN
62051498
OCLC
  • ocm02032407
  • 2032407
  • SCSB-9043264
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries