Two women & a fool / by H.C. Chatfield-Taylor ; with pictures by C.D. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945, author.

Contributor:

Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, illustrator.

Hazenplug, Frank, 1874-1931, binding designer.

Stone & Kimball, publisher.

Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.), printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--Fiction.

Artists.

Actresses--Fiction.

Actresses.

Women social workers--Fiction.

Women social workers.

Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

Chicago (Ill.).

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

Women college graduates--Fiction.

Women college graduates.

Manners and customs.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Fiction

Romance fiction

Romance fiction.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Cary Library (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Cary, Edgar (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Smith, Jackye Dolan B. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 232, [2] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

Chicago : The Lakeside Press

Other Title:

Two women and a fool

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Stone & Kimball, MDCCCXCV [1895]

Summary:

Guy, an artist, finds himself infatuated with two very different women: Moira, a flirtatious actress, and Dorothy, who works with immigrants in a Chicago settlement house. Having met both Moira and Dorothy at college, Guy muses about the potential drawbacks of "over-educating" women as he explores his romantic feelings.

Notes:

A novel.

Binding designed by Frank Hazenplug.

Title page printed in red and black.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has inscription: "Edgar Cary compliments of Jackye Dolon B. Smith" Booksellers sticker on inside back cover: Brentano's. New York.

Cited in:

Kramer, S. Stone & Kimball, 41, 5th edition

Allen & Gullans. Decorated Cloth in America, page 82

OCLC:

3154032