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Dedication : The gift outright: PB 278-2003

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Dedication : The gift outright

Maker(s)

Author: Frost, Robert
Printer: Spiral Press
Illustrator: Kredel, Fritz
Typography: Blumenthal, Joseph

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Description

By Robert Frost. The inaugural address : Washington D.C., January the twentieth, 1961.

Xxiv, 197 p. illus., ports. 31 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1961

Note

"Printed for the Friends of The Spiral Press," "This book has been made to celebrate an historic event. The edition consists of five hundred copies set in Emerson type and printed at the Spiral Press, New York in March of 1961. The presidential eagle was cut in wood by Fritz Kredel especially for this publication. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal."--Colophon. Museum has copy no. 317.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustration

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 278-2003
Primary reference Number: 95870
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 15 December 2014 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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