The Encantadas, or, Enchanted isles / by Herman Melville ; with an introduction, critical epilogue & bibliographical notes by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, author.

Contributor:

Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, 1908-1985, editor.

Dean, Mallette, 1907-1975, illustrator.

Wreden, William P., publisher.

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer.

Grabhorn Press, 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):

Galapagos Islands--Description and travel.

Galapagos Islands.

Travel.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Modern.

Case bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Travel literature.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 118 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

San Francisco : Printed at The Grabhorn Press, March 1940.

Place of Publication:

Burlingame California : William P. Wreden, 1940.

Notes:

Originally published under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor in Putnam's monthly magazine, March, April and May 1854, and later published by Dix and Edwards, New York, 1856, in the author's Piazza tales. See Bibliographical notes (pages 115-[119]).

"Five hundred & fifty copies printed at The Grabhorn Press : San Francisco March, 1940. Initials and drawings by Mallette Dean."--Page [iii].

"Title page printed in black, red, & blue; first two lines of title within colored decorative border. Decorative rules in blue. Frontispiece, folded map drawing, one full-page drawing not included in pagination, and ten illustrative initials by Mallette Dean; initials and illustrations in color. Type Goudy Modern, handset; paper machine made. Bound in decorated black and gold boards with tan cloth back; cream label printed in red on back."--Heller.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in brown paper dust jacket (retained).

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 331

BAL 13729

OCLC:

13603922