Maia : a sonnet sequence / by Charles Erskine Scott Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944.

Contributor:

Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974.

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974 (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

73 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 34 cm

Edition:

Author's edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Or. : Printed for the author at F.W. Baltes and Co., 1918.

Notes:

Decorated title page.

"One hundred and eighty-six copies of this book were printed for the author at the printing house of F.W. Baltes and Xompany, in Portland, Oregon. Completed May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Seen through the press by John Julius Johnck and Arthur Purdy, printers."--Colophon.

"As first completed this work was a sonnet sequence of the seasons, with more numerous sonnets and prose interjections and without lyrics."--P. [5].

The eighty-seventh sonnet and also the ninety-fifth by Sara Bard Field. Frontspiece by C.E.S.W. Scrivener, Kitty Beck. Decorations and types by A.L.B. for his most constant friend the author for whom this book was hand printed ... in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen": P. [71]. "Because of changes and delay the preceding plate must be corrected as follows; the twenty-second sonnet and also the sixty-third by Sara Bard Field ****** the year nineteen hundred and eighteen."--P. [72].

Local Notes:

RBC copy is one of a limited ed. of 186 copies. Cf. colophon.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 1953 by Sarah B.F. Wood [i.e. Sara Bard Field].

OCLC:

12895009