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Christopher Plantin: PB 44-2003

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Christopher Plantin

Maker(s)

Author: Sabbe, Maurits
Illustrator: Pennell, Joseph
Publisher: J.-E. Buschmann

Categories

Description

By Maurits Sabbe ; translated from the Flemish by Alice Van Riel-Göransson ; with illustrations by Joseph Pennell

88p

Place(s) associated

  • Antwerp

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1930

Note

"Of this work an Edition de luxe of fifty numbered copies has been privately printed. This book is no. 276. The current edition, on simili Japan paper, limited to four hundred and fifty copies was numbered from 1 to 450"--Colophon

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 44-2003
Primary reference Number: 94569

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 30 September 2019

Associated departments & institutions

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

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