Word: vellum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professed Roman Catholics. Bound "Bouquet. " News as pleasing, in a different sense, reached the Vatican also last week-that the Right Reverend John J. Dunn, bishop auxiliary vicar general of the archdiocese of New York had just departed for the antipodes, bearing a book containing 72 pages of illumined vellum, bound in white calf with a raised chalice of gold cunningly repousse, jeweled in French enamel and surmounted by a Host in white enamel. Inscribed on the vellum leaves were "flowers," the record of 22,145,089,361 acts of devotion-masses said, holy and spiritual communions, benedictions, "little offices...
...indication of the revival of printing and the art of book-designing, the Treasure Room of Widener Library now has on exhibition a collection of books printed on vellum and issued by the chief modern English presses. Among the most valuable editions is a beautiful edition of Chaucer, bound in white pigskin, and printed on vellum, an edition of which only 13 are in existence. Another valuable and interesting book is an edition of Emerson, presented to the Library by the printer, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1908. On the inside cover he writes...
...Vellum printing was the severest test of these presses, but all of them are distinguished by beauty of type and lettering, coloring of the pages, spacing, and the quality...
Especially interesting, and the most valuable item, is a copy, bound in vellum for presentation, of the first edition of "Alice in Wonderland, London, 1865." This edition was recalled by the author, and the publishers sold the sheets to D. Appleton & Company, New York, who issued the book with a new title-page dated 1866. For a long time the edition published in London in 1866 was considered the first. A copy of this edition in the collection has, as frontispiece, an unusual plate hand-colored by Tenniel, the artist...
Amid virtually continuous cheering, Deputies representing all parties rose to thank Mr. Smith with similar warmth. The occasion marked the termination of League control over Hungarian state finance. Stenographers raced to catch every word of the torrent of laudation. Typesetters, printers, binders, rushed these heartfelt phrases into a vellum-bound volume. It was dedicated and presented to Jeremiah Smith, Esq. After a sumptuous banquet in his honor he quitted Hungary last week...