The unknown quantity : a book of romance and some half-told tales / by Henry Van Dyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933, author.

Contributor:

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

Scribner Press, printer.

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

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Genre:

Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1912.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1912.

Private press books (Printing)

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 370 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

New York : Scribner Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912.

Contents:

The wedding-ring.

Messengers at the window.

The countersign of the cradle.

The key of the tower.

The ripening of the fruit.

The king's jewel.

The music-lover.

Humoreske.

An old game.

The unruly sprite.

A change of air.

The night call.

The effectual fervent prayer.

The return of the charm.

Beggars under the bush.

Stronghold.

In the odour of sanctity.

The sad shepherd.

The mansion.

Notes:

Binding design by Margaret Armstrong, signed "MA."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Orange, pale yellow, and gold on dark blue cloth. Signed with initials MA.

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "The decorated book: continuing a tradition," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2011-2012.

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Cited in:

Gullans, Charles B. Margaret Armstrong and American trade bindings, 285

Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 100

OCLC:

798767