The wet Flanders plain / by Henry Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Henry, 1895-1977, author.

Contributor:

Schwabe, Randolph, 1885-1948, designer.

Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976, printer.

Foster, Arthur, typographer.

Spillett, J., typographer.

Beaumont Press, publisher, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English 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):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Belgium.

World War, 1914-1918.

Military campaigns.

Belgium.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Vellum (Paper)

Case bindings (Binding)

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Memoirs.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Gosse, Philip, 1879-1959 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 95, [3] pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Beaumont Press], [1929]

Summary:

Recollections of the first world war as the author revisits the battlefields.

Notes:

"This is the twenty-fourth book issued by the Beaumont Press. 80 copies (five of which are not for sale) have been printed on hand-made parchment vellum signed by author artist and publisher and numbered 1 to 80 and 320 copies (fifteen of which are not for sale) on hand-made paper numbered 81 to 400. this is no. [blank]"--Limitation statement.

"The cover and title-page designed by Randolph Schwabe. The typography and binding arranged and the book produced by Cyril William Beaumont and printed at his press. Completed on the eight day of May MDCCCCXXIX. Pressman, Arthur Foster. Compositor, J. Spillett"--Colophon.

Title in black and red.

Printer's device at colophon.

Binding: quarter cream buckram over decorated paper boards; title and author's name stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 141.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 283 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 320 copies on hand-made paper numbered 81 to 400. See limitation statement.

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 has bookplate ("EX LIBRIS PHILIP GOSSE") on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Jackson, B.T. The Beaumont Press 1917-1931, 24

OCLC:

3693553