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PB 225-2003: PB 225-2003

Object information

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Maker(s)

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Contributor: Chamson, André
Illustrator: Duvoisin, Roger
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Writer: Marks, Saul
Designer: Marks, Saul
Designer: Marks, Lillian
Printer: Plantin Press

Entities

  • Travels with a donkey

Categories

Description

By Robert Louis Stevenson ; with a prefatory letter from the author, an introduction by André Chamson and illustrations by Roger Duvoisin.

With hand written letter tipped in on blank page following colophon: Saul Marks to John Dreyfus 9th Sept. 1965.

Xiv, [8], 152 p ; 26 cm

Place(s) associated

  • New York
  • Los Angeles

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1957

Note

Of this edition ... fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles. The illustrations were drawn as lithographs, on sheets of acetate, by Roger Duvoisin and printed at The Plantin Press; and the colors were applied by hand, through stencils, in the studio of Walter Fischer in new York..."--Colophon. Museum has copy number "J.D." signed by the illustrator. Bound in brown-flecked aqua basket-weave linen (monk's cloth binding) decorated with paper labels. Lacks slipcase.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations
Letter

Materials used in production

Ink
Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 225-2003
Primary reference Number: 95648
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 September 2012 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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