The Maxims of Noah : Derived from his Experience with Women Both Before and After the Flood as Given in Counsel to His Son Japhet / by Gelett Burgess, author of "The Maxims of Methuselah," "Are You a Bromide?" "Goops," etc. ; with illustrations and designs by Louis D. Fancher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951, author.

Contributor:

Fancher, Louis D., 1884-1944, illustrator.

Frederick A. Stokes Company, publisher.

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):

Maxims.

American wit and humor.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, Dorothea B. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

[6], 119 pages, [4] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 19 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1913]

Notes:

With half-title.

Title page and text within colored ornamental borders.

"Copyright, 1913 by Gelett Burgess."

Price from dust-jacket: 80 cents net.

Black cloth spine with illustrated front and back paper covers that match the dust-jacket.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Dorothea B. Smith by "Babbitt".

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 without dust jacket, but does have protective wrapper.

Cited in:

Johnson, M. de V. First editions (4th ed.), 77

OCLC:

8021463