The Well-Made Book: Essays & Lectures. Special Edition
Language: English
Published by Mark Batty Pub, West New York, NJ, 2002
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.Plain Tales Books
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"Special Edition". One of only 40 copies specially hand-bound containing tipped-in original specimens of Daniel Berkeley Updike's work referred to in the text. Signed on the colophon page by the editor, William S. Peterson. Housed in a matching slipcase. Laid in is a typed letter, hand signed by the publisher, Mark Batty, to the purchaser of the book. The special section bound-in at rear contains the following specimens of books designed & printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike: 1. An adaptation of the title page of The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. 2. A digital copy of a photograph of Daniel Berkeley Updike. 3. Vexilla Regis Quotidie. 4. Stevenson's Attitude to Life with Readings from His Essays and Letters. 5. The Marching Morrows. 6. A Renaissance Courtesy-Book / Galateo of Manners & Behaviors. 7. The Form of Consecration of St. George's Chapel (Middleton, Rhode Island). 8. Notes by Lady Louisa Stuart on George Selwyn and his Contemporaries. 9. The Life of Our Lord Written During the Years 1846-1849. Charles Dickens. 10. Some Aspects of Printing Old and New. daniel Berkeley Updike. 11. Facsimile of a page from The Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, together with the Psalter (folded in rear pocket). .…
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- Title
- The Well-Made Book: Essays & Lectures. Special Edition
- Author
- Updike, Daniel Berkeley; Peterson, William S. (editor)
- Publisher
- Mark Batty Pub, West New York, NJ
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Editor
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0971568774
- ISBN 13
- 9780971568778
- Edition
- First Edition, Limited
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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