The king of the Golden river : a legend of Stiria / written in 1841 by John Ruskin, the same being a tale for young folks & their elders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Harvie, Fred H., Dr. (donor) (RBC copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 75 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1900.

Notes:

The text body was set in Caslon Old Style. The regular edition (seen above) and the specially illumined edition of 350 were printed on Boxmoor paper. Most of the books in all editions were bound in suede. The edition of 350 is suede with a wallet edge and some of the edition of 40 were bound in full Levant and probably 3/4 Levant also. The limited edition of 40 was printed on Imperial Japan Vellum.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Title-page and initials designed by Samuel Warner--Colophon.

Title within ornamental border; running title and colophon in red.

Cover and running title: The golden river.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copies are from the Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copies bound in full suede, 2 line gilt title in rectangular surround on cover..

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 58

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-055-00

Contains:

Golden river.

OCLC:

4325099