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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Contributor:

Hubbard, Elbert, 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)

Ballard, Ellis Ames, 1861-1938 (label) (Culture Class copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

92 pages, 1 leaf : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[East Aurora, N.Y.] : [The Roycroft Shop], [1899]

Notes:

"Of this edition but eighty copies were especially illumined by hand. Each volume is signed & numbered ..."--P. following t.p.

The body of the text is in Old Style Antiqua and 80 copies were printed on unmarked laid paper and specially illumined. The regular edition of this book and the limited edition of 80 were both bound in blind stamped suede. The 1899 edition contains L'Envoi which is not in the 1898 variant and the anchor on page 15 was not in the 1898 variant. This book is numbered and signed by Elbert Hubbard.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

"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 January, Anno Christi, MDCCCXCIX."--Colophon.

"This volume was suppressed by order of the court, and only about sixty copies got into circulation"--Cf. Livingston.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 16 and signed by Elbert Hubbard.

Culture Class Collection copy housed in a box which contains the leather label of the Ellis Ames Ballard Kipling Collection.

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 slipcased. It is number 43 and signed by Hubbard.

Cited in:

Livingston, F.V. Kipling, 188

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 39

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-032-99

OCLC:

8956723