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PB 5-2019: PB 5-2019

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Author: Blake, William
Editor: Keynes, Geoffrey
Publisher: Nonesuch Press

Categories

Description

"...Limited to 1500 copies on Vidalon handmade paper, and 75 copies on Oxford India paper, numbered 1 to 1500 and I to LXXV..." This is copy no. 263

3 volumes

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1935) by Riches, Thomas Henry

Dating

Production date: AD 1925

Note

Title within red ornamental border. "This edition is printed at the University Press, Oxford, in the 17th-century Fell types. It is limited to 1250 copies, on Vidalon hand-made paper, of which 1200 are for sale in England and America. This is number [in ms] 994." Edited by Viola Meynell Quarter bound in vellum with patterned paper sides over boards. Patterned paper endpages

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 5-2019
Primary reference Number: 238740
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Friday 1 November 2019 Updated: Friday 1 November 2019 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

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