The dipsy chanty : and other selected poems / by Rudyard Kipling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Contributor:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace), 1856-1915.

Roycroft Shop.

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

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) Culture Class copy) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

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

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

Physical Description:

90 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycroft Shop, [1898]

Notes:

Illuminated initials; colophon, running title and note in red.

The body of text is Antiqua Old Style and 950 copies were printed on Van Gelder handmade paper and bound in decorated suede. An unknown number of the suede bindings had sterling silver corners. McKenna states that 100 copies were specially illuminated and speculates that the illumination was only hand embellishment of the Lombardic initials in gold. While this is true for some copies, these pictures seem to dispel that notion. It may be that 100 were illuminated in that manner but 60 had additional illumination.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

"Of this edition sixty copies were especially illumined by hand. These copies are signed and numbered ..."--P. following t.p.

"So here endeth the Dipsy Chanty & other selected poems ... done into a book by me, Elbert Hubbard, at the Roycroft Shop which is in the hamlet of East Aurora, N.Y., U.S.A. completed this twenty-seventh day of October, Anno Christi, MDCCCXCVIII."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection is no. 26, with the initials E.H. Illustrations by "C.S. 11/26/98" are done in watercolor.

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is full suede with 2-line gilt title and ornament by W. W. Denslow; gilt title in shield device. Copy number 19, initialed by Hubbard. Illumined by C.S. (Clara Schlegel), signed 11/12/98.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 22

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-028-98

OCLC:

17283603