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The law of love : being fantasies of science and sentiment inked into English to cheer up the gloomsters / by Wm. Marion Reedy.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 92
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reedy, William Marion, 1862-1920.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sappho.
- Adams, Maude, 1872-1953.
- Adams, Maude.
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923.
- Bernhardt, Sarah.
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
- Burton, Richard Francis.
- Love.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [East Aurora, N.Y.] : [Roycrofters], [1905]
- Contents:
- The law of love.
- The greatest woman poet [Sappho].
- Ginx's baby.
- Two eaglets [Maude Adams and Sarah Bernhardt].
- A gipsy genious [Sir Richard Burton].
- Brichanteau, actor.
- A golden book [Marius, the Epicurean]
- Notes:
- The text body is set in Cheltenham Bold. It was printed in three colors on Boxmoor paper for the regular edition which was bound in suede. It is known that fifty copies were printed on Boxmoor were bound in modeled calf. Fifty copies were printed on Japan Vellum and bound in marbled paper over boards with a suede spine. Two copies were bound in full leather. Another edition was bound 3/4 leather and printed on Japan Vellum in an edition of 106.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is from the Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 1 is number 24 of 106 on Japan vellum. Bound in 3/4 leather; cover illumined with gilt rules.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 is bound in full suede; gilt title in rectangular surround with rosette corners.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 116
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-104-05
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reedy, William Marion, 1862-1920. Law of love.
- OCLC:
- 2625316
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