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N'EN PARLONS PLUS!, EXCERPTS FROM DIVERS PAPERS & CHRONICLES OF THE ARTS CLUB, 1937-1938.
Bentley, Wilder (Editor).

   

- Berkeley : Archetype Press 1939
- folio
- cloth with printed design on front cover
- 19+(1) pages
- Order Nr. 62298
- Price: $ 250.00



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Limited to 105 copies, set up and printed on a handpress by Wilder Bentley ("and his faithful spouse, Ellen") on dampened Strathmore Wayside Text for at The Archetype Press in Euclid Court, Berkeley, Ca and issued for private distribution among members of The Arts Club & their friends. Printed in "a bastard version" of Caslon Oldface italic and Goudy Modern roman. Wood-engraved abstraction of the initial i for the Prolegomena, vignette on the title-page, and design for the front cover by John C. Haley. Excerpts from chronicles of The Arts Club's past season. "It is not primarily designed to explain to the world in general what we are, what we do, how well we reason, or how badly we sing. Rather it is a souvenir, intended to revive some of our very happy memories." Finely printed.

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> PRIVATE PRESS & FINE PRINTING, TWENTIETH CENTURY
> UNITED STATES, CALIFORNIA
> ARCHETYPE PRESS
> BOOK ILLUSTRATION, TWENTIETH CENTURY
> BENTLEY, WILDER
> HAELY, JOHN C.

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