<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid/><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>A proverbial book.<num>BA-20</num></titleproper></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>University of Richmond Book Arts Studio</publisher><address><addressline>archives@richmond.edu</addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2025-10-16 07:03:43 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin script</language>.</langusage></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="item">
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      <corpname>University of Richmond Book Arts Studio</corpname>
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    <unittitle>A proverbial book.</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003043122" role="art" rules="dacs" source="LOC Authorities">Spring, Jessica</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003043515" role="pbl" rules="dacs" source="LOC Authorities">Springtide Press</corpname>
    </origination>
    <unitid>BA-20</unitid>
    <unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/6/resources/79</unitid>
    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 Volumes</extent>
      <physfacet>[32] pages : includes illustrations</physfacet>
      <dimensions>15 cm</dimensions>
    </physdesc>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="2002/2002">2002</unitdate>
    <physdesc id="aspace_05dfa00a611264d1c28b306895e436ac">"Illustrations were printed from original cuts for Vocabulary seat work from the Plymouth Press, and combined with digital type on polymer plates"--Colophon.

Rare Book Room copy bound in red suede-covered boards with clasp; inset image on front cover with caption "Necessity is the mother of invention."

Illustrations hand colored.</physdesc>
    <materialspec id="aspace_557d4a476b3e32ea3feed2cf1a1cb4f2">The Rare Book Room copy is numbered 22 of 40. It includes the artist's autograph on colophon: Jessica Spring. Title and imprint from colophon.</materialspec>
    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of Westhampton College Class of 1943.</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85107840" source="lcsh">Proverbs</subject>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2017027220" source="lcsh">Artists' Books</genreform>
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