The essay on Walt Whitman / by Robert Louis Stevenson ; with A little journey to the home of Whitman by Elbert Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, author.

Contributor:

Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, illustrator.

Roycroft Shop, publisher, printer.

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

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt.

Poets, American--19th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Boxmoor (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Roycroft 125)

Schlegel, Clara (autograph) (Roycroft 125)

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

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

Physical Description:

[6], 91, [1] pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Little journey to the home of Whitman

Place of Publication:

[East Aurora, N.Y.] : The Roycroft Shop, 1900.

Notes:

The text body is set in Caslon and was printed on Boxmoor paper. The book is bound in suede and has a wallet edge. Initials are hand illumined and the title page was designed by Louis Rhead. This book was printed in an edition of 50. There also was an unlimited edition bound in suede and without illumination printed in 1900.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Roycroft 125 is number 27 of 50 on Boxmoor paper, bound in full suede with wallet edge, and specially illumined. Signed by Hubbard, illumined by Clara Schlegel.

Roycroft 126 & 127 are bound in full suede with illumined initials only. Roycroft 127 has uncut leaves.

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (2014) not bound. Title from cover. Illumined initials.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 65

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-052-00

Contains:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Little journey to the home of Whitman.

OCLC:

761437