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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 ...

Title: 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 ... / prepared with a zestful variety of type faces and served by Henry Morris.
Publication: North Hills, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1977.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Bird) 77-736	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Schlosser 522	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

86 p. : col. ill., facsims., ports., sample; 30 cm.

Alternative Title

Bird and Bull pepper pot.
Pepper pot.

Subjects

Note

Compiled and largely written by Henry Morris.
One folded sheet of "wyn ranken paper, 25% grapevines, 75% rag," made by Henry Morris according to the method described by J.C. Schäffer, comprises p. [73-76].
"Jacob Christian Schaeffer" (p. 53-86) includes English translation of selections from Schäffer's Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben, Papier zu machen, translated from the Dutch ed. (Proefnemingen en monster-bladen, om papier te maaken ...) by Henk Voorn.
Erratum slip laid in.
Binding, publisher's, by Gray Parrot, of quarter tan morocco and paste paper boards (paste paper made by Morris at the Press)

Indexed In (note)

Taylor, W.T. Bird & Bull

Contents

The adventures of a boy printer / Henry Morris -- To err is human -- William Nash of St. Paul's Cray [selections from the work by W.S. Shears] -- Bovine again -- Communication / by Avis N. Bovine (i.e. Henry Morris) -- So what more can a publisher do? : the Marsh brothers of New Milford, Conn. -- Yes, boys will be boys : [selections] / by William J. Marsh, Jr. -- The 13th IPH Congress at Fabriano -- Mrs. Isaac Rice -- Jacob Christian Schaeffer.

Call Number

*KP (Bird) 77-736

LCCN

82462231

OCLC

NYPG90-B16855

Title

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 ... / prepared with a zestful variety of type faces and served by Henry Morris.

Imprint

North Hills, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1977.

Indexed In:

Taylor, W.T. Bird & Bull, A19

Local Note

Printed in black and green on Green's handmade Bird & Bull paper.

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Local Subject

Paper, Plant fiber -- Specimens.

Paper, Handmade -- England -- Maidstone -- Specimens.

Paper, Handmade -- Pennsylvania -- North Hills -- Specimens.

Added Author

Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.

Shears, W. S. (William Sydney), 1896- William Nash of St. Paul's Cray. Selections. 1977.

Marsh, William J. (William John), 1918- Yes, boys will be boys. Selections. 1977.

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790. Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben, Papier zu machen. English. Selections. 1977.

J. Barcham Green, Ltd. (1975- )

Added Title

Bird and Bull pepper pot.

Pepper pot.

Research Call Number

*KP (Bird) 77-736 Library has: No. 242 of "approximately 250 copies" printed; cf. colophon.

Schlosser 522 Library has: No. 205 of "approximately 250 copies" printed; cf. colophon. Library has: Prospectus (1 folded sheet) laid in.

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