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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Accordion folded strip, consisting of three sections of six, six, and five leaves respectively, joined together to form one continuous piece. First blank leaf pasted to inside front cover. Leaf [3] of prelim. and last leaf blank. Two applied colored illustrations after colophon.
Listing of thumb Bibles acquired by Robert E. Massmann since 2001 and not included in Ruth E. Adomeit's Three centuries of thumb Bibles, 1980. Cf. leaf [1]: 'When we published Not in Adomeit last year I had 89 thumb Bibles. At this writing the total has grown to 102. Of this year's increase, two titles are the basis of this disquisition.'
"Typography by Richard A. Massmann. Design, layout, and binding by Robert E. Massmann. Limited to 150 copies, of which 100 are intended as keepsakes of Eloise and Bob Massmann for M.B.S. Conclave XX. Also 25 deluxe copies with extra illustrations in color." -- colophon.
Gift: Robert E. Massmann, January 2003.
Libraries' copy is deluxe copy, #23 of 25, signed by Massmann and accompanied by prospectus.
Libraries also have copy of the "plain" copy.
Bound in publisher's red leatherette-covered boards with applied cover label. In grey card sleeve.
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Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages, 2-10 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves) : facsimiles (some color) ; 62 mm. x 81 cm folded to 62 x 57 mm
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Call Numbers:
- Z232.R64 N681 2002a
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OCLC Numbers:
- 54366215
