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My two Oxfords: PB 10-2004

Current Location: In storage

Titles

My two Oxfords

Maker(s)

Author: Morris, Willie
Illustrator: DePol, John
Publisher: Yellow Barn Press
Printer: Shaver, Neil
Binder (person): Campbell-Logan Bindery
Paper maker: Maziarczyk, Claire

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Description

Willie Morris ; wood engravings by John DePol.

From Homecomings, pub. 1989

20, [1] p : ill ; 24 cm.

Place(s) associated

  • Council Bluffs

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1992

Note

"... The type is 12 point Bulmer set in Monotype by M & H Type of San Francisco. The display faces on the title page are also Bulmer. A Gill Floriated initial is seen on page one. The paper is Rives, A French moldmade sheet, printed damp. The wood engravings were printed from the original blocks. Jack Walsdorf ... brought printer and author together, that printed being Neil Shaver. He used a Vandercook III press. The Campbell-Logan Bindery of Minneapolis bound the book. Claire Maziarczyk created the pastepaper for the binding. There are 210 copies in this edition"--Colophon. Museum has copy no. 38, signed by the author and engraver with inscription by the latter to John Dreyfus dated 3.12.1992. Quarter bound with in blue cloth with blue patterned paper sides; paper label on spine.

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 10-2004
Primary reference Number: 99054

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 24 September 2014

Associated departments & institutions

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

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