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Call Number:
MSS 17
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680
Title(s):
Perfect and Imperfect Enjoyments: poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Introduction by Christopher Hibbert and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith. London: The Folio Press, 1992.
Date:
1992
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series II: Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
Part of Collection:
volume Moss no. 126
Provenance:
Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Eight leaves of two-color lithographed plates [facingPp. 3, 19, 30, 52, 70, 89, 95 and 96]. Typeset in monotype Garamond. Printed on white Magnani mould-made paper by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy, photolithographic plates printed at the Senecio Press, Charlbury, Oxfordshire. Five hundred numbered copies printed of which 450 copies are quarter bound in Oasis morocco and 50 special copies are bound in full vellum with a separate portfolio of illustrations. In addition to the 500 numbered copies, 40 additional lettered copies (35 standards and five specials) were printed and bound for private distribution by the Society. This copy is signed and numbered 168/500. Bound by the Fine Bindery in quarter dark red morocco, Cockerell marbled paper boards; dark green endleaves. Dark green clamshell box, printed paper cover-label and leather spine-label. Folio Society color prospectus laid in. A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10436045">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
Physical Description:
Pp. [1-6] 7-109 [110-112] ; 310 x 214 mm
Finding Aid Title:
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396078
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396078?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1