Mendicant rhymes / by Laurence Housman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959, author.

Contributor:

Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, type designer.

Essex House Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century.

English poetry.

Fine books--England--London--Specimens.

Fine books.

England--London.

Genre:

Specimens.

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Endeavour.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

56 pages ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

[Chipping Campden] : Printed at the Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, A.D. MDCCCCVI [1906]

Place of Publication:

[London] : Published at 16a Brook Street. Bond Street, London W. [i.e. Essex House Press], [1906]

Notes:

"Here end the Mendicant rhymes by Laurence Housman, printed at the Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, A.D. MDCCCCVI. Published at 16a Brook Street. Bond Street, London W."--Colophon.

"A volume of verse printed in the 'Endeavour' type. Not on Essex House paper. In grey boards vellum backed."--Ashbee.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Cited in:

Tomkinson, G.S. A select bibliography of the principal modern presses, no. 68

Ashbee, C.R. The private press, page 81

OCLC:

1837408