Pirates! or, The cruise of the Black Revenge ; a melodrama in thirteen acts. / Plot by Kendall Banning ; scenes carved on wood by Gustave Baumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banning, Kendall, 1879-1944.

Contributor:

Baumann, Gustave, 1881-1971, illustrator.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wit and humor (American).

Caricature and comic art (U.S.).

Local Subjects:

Wit and humor (American).

Caricature and comic art (U.S.).

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926 (bookplate) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Lemperly, Paul, 1858-1939 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Cruise of the Black Revenge

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Brothers of the Book, MDCCCCXVI [1916]

Notes:

With half-title.

Thirteen poems and thirteen full page woodcuts printed on double leaves joined at the top.

"Copyright, 1916 by the Brothers of the Book."

"The edition of this book consists of five hundred and twenty-five copies on this Kozuchi hand-made Japanese paper."

"Here ends this tale of Captain Hawkes and his pirate crew, by Kendall Banning and Gustave Baumann, which has been devised in this form by Laurence C. Woodworth for the delectation of the Brothers of the Book, and printed for them at the press of The Faithorn Company, in Chicago. Anno Domini MDCCCCXVI."

Black paper wrapper with "Pirates" written in red on front.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Charles Dexter Allen by Paul Lemperly, Xmas 1916.

Culture Class Collection copy has newspaper article about the Brothers of the Book pasted on preliminary page.

Culture Class Collection copy enclosed in binder of marbled red, green and black paper with bookplate of Charles Dexter Allen on cover.

Culture Class Collection copy has letter and three advertising leaflets from the Brothers of the Book laid in.

OCLC:

2944211