The Bird & Bull Pepper Pot. Ingredients, Choice Bits of Uncommon Papermaking Publishing and Printing History Simmered in a Tasty Broth of Poetry, Current Events and Amusing Anecdotes. Lightly Seasoned with a Dash of Obscenity, and with Selected Portions of Tripe Added as in the Old Original Recipe. [with a note on colophon from Morris]
by Morris, Henry
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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About This Item
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press. Fine. 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 227 of 250 copies. Also a note from Henry Morris to collector John Urabec, M. D., "John - this copy picked at random - not #22, but has 22 in it - , Henry 10/3/77." 86 pp.; 4to., quarter light brown Oasis leather spine lettered in gilt, green pastepaper-covered boards. Printed by hand by Morris on dampened handmade Bird & Bull paper. Seven articles including an autobiographical sketch and the first English translation of sections of Jacob Christian Schaeffers famous 18th-century text on papermaking. The latter contains four tinted plates showing raw material for paper. Prospectus laid in. .
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- Bookseller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9623
- Title
- The Bird & Bull Pepper Pot. Ingredients, Choice Bits of Uncommon Papermaking Publishing and Printing History Simmered in a Tasty Broth of Poetry, Current Events and Amusing Anecdotes. Lightly Seasoned with a Dash of Obscenity, and with Selected Portions of Tripe Added as in the Old Original Recipe. [with a note on colophon from Morris]
- Author
- Morris, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Bird & Bull Press
- Place of Publication
- North Hills, PA
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- PAPERMAKING, PRINTING, Graphic Art, TYPOGRAPHY, Fine Press, Getman 34, PRESS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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About the Seller
G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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GRASS VALLEY, California
About G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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