The heart's highway : a romance of Virginia in the seventeenth century / by Mary E. Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930, author.

Contributor:

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

J.J. Little & Co., printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.

Virginia.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5886) (Schimmel Fiction 5887) (Schimmel Fiction 5889) (Schimmel Fiction 5890) (Schimmel 6845) (Schimmel 6846))

Brandenburg, Edgar T. (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5886))

Strickland, Minnie A. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5889))

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 308 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

New York : Press of J.J. Little & Co. Astor Place.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900.

Notes:

Frontispiece plate with tissue guard.

"List of Illustrations: 'She held in Merry Roger until I was forced to come up and ... a mock-bird was singing somewhere over on the bank of the river'--Frontispiece. 'Captain Tabor ... remained silent for a space, his brows knitted'--Facing page 112. 'Then I felt my own right leg sink under me, and I knew that I was hit'--Facing page 254. 'Straight up to the stocks she came ... and sat there, thrusting her two tiny feet, in their dainty shoes, through the apertures next mine'--Facing page 306."--Preliminary page [5].

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Aunt Kate from LeRoy, Christmas, 1900.

Schimmel Collection copies (Schimmel Fiction 5886, 5887, 5889 & 5890) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5886) has affixed to front pastedown bookplate ("PRIVATE LIBRARY OF EDGAR T. BRANDENBURG, Vol. 971. HANDLE WITH CARE AND RETURN.") with the volume number supplied in manuscript in red ink.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5886) has portrait of the author from an unidentified publication affixed to front free endpaper; review of this work from The New York Times Saturday review (23 June 1900), identified in manuscript in red ink, affixed to back pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5886) bound in full dark red cloth (boards 19 cm in height); boards ruled in blind; title and author's name stamped in gold on left board; thick gold-stamped rule at head and tail of spine; title and three fleurons stamped in gold on spine.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5887) bound in full dark green cloth; left board divided into panels with dark green rules; title and author's name stamped in white on left board; square illustration (from plate facing page 254) affixed to left board; spine decorated with pattern in dark green; title, author's surname and publisher's name stamped in white on spine.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5889) has dated 20th-century autograph ("Minnie A. Strickland. Jan. 1901") on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5889) bound in full yellow cloth (boards 21 cm in height); white-stamped illustration of a gate and tree-lined drive leading to a large house within an architectural border with title stamped in gold at head and author's name at foot on left board; title, author's surname and publisher's name stamped in gold on spine.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5890) bound in full yellow cloth (boards 21 cm in height); white-stamped illustration of a gate and tree-lined drive leading to a large house within an architectural border with title stamped in gold at head and author's name at foot on left board; title, author's surname and publisher's name stamped in gold on spine.

Schimmel Collection copies (Schimmel 6845 and 6846) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copies (Schimmel 6845 and 6846) bound in full yellow cloth (boards 21 cm in height); white-stamped illustration of a gate and tree-lined drive leading to a large house within an architectural border with title stamped in gold at head and author's name at foot on left board; title, author's surname and publisher's name stamped in gold on spine.

Cited in:

BAL 6362

OCLC:

996470