Accession number
PML 152539
Creator
Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1952.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Notes
"The illustrations are from wood engravings of the same period [c.1790], most of them by Alexander Anderson."--Colophon.
"The text was set in 11 point Monotype Bell by Westcott & Thomson, Inc. Text and cover were printed by L.F. White Company, Inc. on Bethany Book supplied by the Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation. Of the first edition 350 copies have been set aside by the publisher as Monograph No. 37 for distribution by the Typophiles."--Colophon.
Illustrated card: "Greetings, 1952, Oxford University Press", signed by Walter Campbell--Laid in.
"The text was set in 11 point Monotype Bell by Westcott & Thomson, Inc. Text and cover were printed by L.F. White Company, Inc. on Bethany Book supplied by the Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation. Of the first edition 350 copies have been set aside by the publisher as Monograph No. 37 for distribution by the Typophiles."--Colophon.
Illustrated card: "Greetings, 1952, Oxford University Press", signed by Walter Campbell--Laid in.
Description
30, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Printed wrappers replicating an early American wallpaper pattern, c. 1790; housed in slipcase with Julian Boyd's Spirit of Christmas at Monticello (1964) and TLS from J. Boyd to J. Wightman.
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