Three masques / by Ben Jonson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, author.

Bamburgh, William Cushing, author of preface, illuminator.

Contributor:

Robert Grier Cook, publisher.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masques.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Provence (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

58 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Robert Grier Cooke, 1903.

Contents:

The masque of Oberon

The masque of blackness

The masque of beauty.

Notes:

Preface signed by William Cushing Bamburgh.

Four numbered copies on Japanese Vellum , twenty-six lettered copies on Provence hand-made paper with illuminated title-page and initials, and on hundred and twenty-six rubricated copies on Provence hand-made paper. The lettered copies have been illuminated by William Cushing Bamburgh.--Colophon.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy one is letter S. Copy two is number 22 with protective wrapper, and some uncut leaves.

OCLC:

661303