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Contributors:

Massmann, Rick , typographer

Massmann, Seth , illustrator

Massmann, Eloise C. , illuminator

Massmann, Robert E. , binder

Racz, Twyla , donor

Company of Amateur Brewers

Rare Book Room Donation

REM Miniatures (Firm) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

Proceedings of the Company of Amateur Brewers [Company of Amateur Brewers]

Subjects:

Massmann, Robert E., -2013 — Autographs — Specimens

Water

Drinking of alcoholic beverages

Miniature books — 21st century — United States — Specimens

2000-2099

Miniature books

United States

Earth (Planet)

Genres:

Prospectuses — 21st Century — United States

Printed books — United States — Connecticut — New Britain — 21st century

Specimens

General Notes:

"Typography Rick Massmann. Cover label & frontispiece Seth Massmann. Hand coloring Eloise & Robert Massmann. Design, layout, and binding R.E.M. 100 copies." -- colophon.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Company of Amateur Brewers. Vermont: privately published, 1936. The original volume was said to have been distributed to the members of a secret society of brewers, in an edition of less than 300 copies.
(Copy 1) Gift: Robert E. Massmann, November 2003.
(Copy 2) Gift: November 2006.
Prospectus: Gift: Twyla Racz, August 2009.
(Copy 2) ex. coll. Robert E. Massmann, author, publisher, collector.
(Copy 1) Bound in publisher's issue binding of full dark blue/black cloth with applied hand-colored cover label. In grey card slipcase with applied printed label.
(Copy 2) Custom binding for publisher: Full brown simulated leather with applied hand-colored cover label. In grey card slipcase with applied printed label.
Prospectus: Bound in publisher's printed wrappers.
(Copy 2) Bookplate of Robert E. Massmann inside front cover, and signed by Massmann.
(Copy 2) Handwritten note at end of volume in hand of REM: "1 of 2 extra illustrated copies", and containing extra pages at end with affixed United States postage stamps with illustrations of Niagara Falls.
(Copy 2) Donated to the Miniature Books Collection of the UNT Libraries in honor of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Rare Book & Texana Collections.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 4 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 56 mm

Call Numbers:

Z232.R64 W38 2003

OCLC Numbers:

53705929