The ancient law / by Ellen Glasgow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945, author.

Contributor:

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile workers--Fiction.

Textile workers.

Factories--Fiction.

Factories.

Virginia--Fiction.

Virginia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Sperr, Portia Hamilton (donor) (Libra Rare copy)

McCormack, Cary Glasgow, 1863-1911 (autograph, January 21st 1908) (Libra Rare copy)

Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945 (autograph) (Libra Rare copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 485 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908.

Summary:

This book portrays white factory workers in the Virginia textile industry and the effects of industrial capitalism.

Contents:

Book First. The New Life

Book Second. The Day of Reckoning

Book Third. The Larger Prison

Book Fourth. Liberation.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title page printed within decorated border.

"Published, January, 1908."

Red cloth boards lettered on spine and front cover in gilt. Spine and front cover have ornamental wheel with wheel on front cover having spokes of gilt.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] slip with cataloging information about this book laid in.

LIBRA Rare copy PS3513.L34 A63 1908 was presented to the Penn Libraries by Portia Hamilton Sperr in 2015. Has autographs of Glasgow and McCormack (which is followed by 2 quotations)

OCLC:

154639375