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La belle O'Morphi

Archive Print Item: Pencheon Collection DEH

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Type of record: Book

Title: La belle O'Morphi

Level: Item

Classmark: Pencheon Collection DEH

Creator(s): De Heriz, Patrick

Additional creator(s): Boucher, François (1703-1770) (Artist); Sandford, Christopher (Book designer); Newbery, Francis J (Printer); Hepburn, J (Compositor); Curran, A J (Printer); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner); Golden Cockerel Press (Printer); Arnold & Foster (Papermaker)

Related people: O'Murphy, Louison, 1737-1815; Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774; Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774; O'Murphy, Louison, 1737-1815

Publisher: The Golden Cockerel Press

Publication city: [London, England]

Date(s): [1947?]

Language: English

Size and medium: [4], 35, [2] pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/776260

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020230895005181

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Place and date of publication from copy-specific information.

The first and last leaves are blank.

Portrait on title page.

"Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, in 'Garamond' type (with the title in Fournier) on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition, press-work, and collotyping of the pictures by Francois Boucher have been supervised by F.J. Newbery. Compositor: J. Hepburn. Pressman: A.J. Curran. The edition is limited to 750 numbered copies of which Nos. 1-100 are specially bound. Number: 454."--Colophon.

Binding: pink and blue cloth, printer's device in gilt on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection DEH: No. 454 of an edition of 750 copies.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection DEH: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).

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