A day at Laguerre's and other days : being nine sketches / by F. Hopkinson Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915, author.

Contributor:

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Van Dyke, William (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

[12], 190, [2] pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

[Trade edition].

Manufacture:

Cambridge, Mass. : The Riverside Press

Place of Publication:

Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCXVII [1892]

Contents:

A day at Laguerre's

Espero Gorgoni, gondolier.

Under the minarets.

An escapade in Cordova.

La canal de la Viga.

A Bulgarian opera bouffe.

Captain Joe.

Hutchins.

Six hours in Squantico.

Notes:

Title printed in orange within ornamental border.

Decorated initials and marginal headings.

Laid paper watermarked The Riverside Press.--Cf. BAL.

Tan cloth binding lettered in black with blue-black coated endpapers. Top edge gilt stained.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Francis Hopkinson Smith and ms. annotation "Capt. Joe Bell is Capt.Thos. A. Scott of New London - who was with me as my sub-marine Engineer for over twenty years - in all my construction work".

Culture Class Collection copy has book review cut from magazine laid in.

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

Cited in:

BAL 18212

OCLC:

1387069