Accession number
PML 250911
Published
Sudbury, Mass. : Kurbel Books, c1985.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Cover title.
Includes 3 Vatican postage stamps affixed to pages and a "Master" silver metal key (38 x 20 mm) on a ribbon
Published as a tunnel book with pages configured as a double accordion fold closed at both ends, with two interior cross-pages and the first page designed as a set of double doors to be open, allowing the reader to peep through a window, through hedges, over landscape, to see the dome of St. Peter's cathedral; this peep show is intended to emulate the view of the Aventine Hill, through the keyhole of the doorway to the garden of the Priory of the Knights of Malta, in Rome.
"Design & text: Joseph L. Curren; Art & calligraphy: E. Helene Sherman; Hand coloring: Eloise C. Massmann; Layout & binding: Robert E. Massmann ... 300 copies"--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 53.
Includes 3 Vatican postage stamps affixed to pages and a "Master" silver metal key (38 x 20 mm) on a ribbon
Published as a tunnel book with pages configured as a double accordion fold closed at both ends, with two interior cross-pages and the first page designed as a set of double doors to be open, allowing the reader to peep through a window, through hedges, over landscape, to see the dome of St. Peter's cathedral; this peep show is intended to emulate the view of the Aventine Hill, through the keyhole of the doorway to the garden of the Priory of the Knights of Malta, in Rome.
"Design & text: Joseph L. Curren; Art & calligraphy: E. Helene Sherman; Hand coloring: Eloise C. Massmann; Layout & binding: Robert E. Massmann ... 300 copies"--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 53.
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 65 x 55 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Red paper cover in red paper slipcase with title and illustrations in black.
Classification
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