Le Mystère de la Charité de Jeanne d'Arc.
by HAMMER, Victor & Jacob. WELLS COLLEGE PRESS. PÉGUY, Charles
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About This Item
New York: printed and bound by Victor & Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press for Pantheon Books, 1943. One of 475 copies out of an edition of 500 on Ragston paper. Engraving by Victor Hammer on title page. Printed in brown and black in Emerson type. Pp.234, original blue and cream cloth, stamped in gilt, in the original dustwrapper. Wrapper slightly darkened, otherwise a very good, uncut copy.||The metal cut engraving on the title page by Victor Hammer is based on a drawing scribbled by a clerk of the Parliament of Paris in the margin of a recored of 1429 which mentions the lifting of the siege of Orleans.|An Introduction to Victor and Carolyn Hammer, p. 55, no.12
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7584
- Title
- Le Mystère de la Charité de Jeanne d'Arc.
- Author
- HAMMER, Victor & Jacob. WELLS COLLEGE PRESS. PÉGUY, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- printed and bound by Victor & Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press for Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Victor Hammer;Wells College Press;Engraving Book,Private Press, Printing & Typography
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