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Patriarch tree : thirty poems = Arbre patriarche : trente poèmes: PB 11321

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Titles

Patriarch tree : thirty poems = Arbre patriarche : trente poèmes

Maker(s)

Author: Maritain, Raissa
Contributor: Speaight, Robert
Publisher: Stanbrook Abbey Press
Binder (person): Percival, George
Lithographer: W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Illustrator: Adams, Margaret

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Description

By Raïssa Maritain ; translated into English by a Benedictine of Stanbrook ; with a preface by Robert Speaight = De Raïssa Maritain traduits en anglais par une Bénédictine de Stanbrook ; avec une préface de Robert Speaight.

Text in English and French

Xvii,[5],81,[6]p : port ; 27cm.

Place(s) associated

  • Worcester
  • Leicester
  • Ipswich

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1975)

Dating

Production date: AD 1965

Note

"This book is handset in Jan van Krimpen's Romanée type printed by the Stanbrook Abbey Press during 1964 & 1965 on Barcham Green's 'Eltham' handmade paper and bound by George Percival of Leicester. The portrait is lithographed by Messrs. W. S. Cowell Ltd. of Ipswich & the title devices are by Margaret Adams. The edition of 550 copies comprises copies I-XX bound in full leather with Japanese endpapers & slip-case, copy number 1 specially bound for His Holiness Pope Paul VI ; copies numbers XXI-L sheets only for special binding ; copies numbers 1-500 bound in quarter leather with Japanese sides endpapers & slip-case."--Colophon Quarter bound in black niger morocco with gold fillet and lettering on spine, decorative paper sides (tree motif in black, white and red); top edge of pages gilt, bottom edge untrimmed. Green endpages. Issued in slipcase.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 11321
Primary reference Number: 98690
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 22 June 2012 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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