Quaint verses for the holiday season presented by Margot & Richard Archer
Poetry. Issued in lettered folder printed in red and orange. At head of title of each poem wood-engraving in green and brown of genre scencs reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler (Oppenheim, 1518) Colophon on page [2] of folder: These verses have been taken from an English broadside of 1783, & the woodcuts have been reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler, printed by Koebel in Oppenheim, March 1518, and now in the Chapin Library at Williams College. This truncated version has been laboriously printed using foundry types on a Shniedewend Handpress 615, at The Sign of the Hippogryph, Williamstown, Mass. December 1963.
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