Chosen poems / by Henry Van Dyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933, author.

Contributor:

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

Scribner Press, printer.

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

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Binders (Binding) -- Margaret Armstrong.

Illustrated works.

Poetry.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1927.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

McGinnis, Gertrude N. (autograph, Feb.8, 1928) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 355 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (black- & -white), portrait, frontispiece, plates ; 20 cm

Edition:

Sylvanora edition.

Manufacture:

[New York, New York] : The Scribner Press.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

Frontispiece portrait of Van Dyke by Walter Appleton Clark with tissue guard and three additional illustrations. The last book in Armstrong's Van Dyke series, it is a collection of Van Dyke's poems chosen by his friends as their favorites. Armstrong created the cover of intertwined tulips for the first poem in the book: "When Tulips Bloom."--Vendor's description.

Notes:

Title in red and black; manufacture and copyright statements from title verso; frontispiece guard sheet present.

Cloth binding and dust jacket signed by the designer: M.A. [i.e. Margaret Armstrong].

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 has booksellers sticker on bottom of first leaf (recto): DeWolfe & Fiske Co. Boston Mass.

Cited in:

Gullans & Espey 291

OCLC:

2084209