Sonnets from Antan / with an editorial note by James Branch Cabell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958, author.

Contributor:

Krimpen, Jan van, 1892-1958, type designer.

Fountain Press, publisher.

Random House (Firm), distributor.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

Japan Paper Company, papermaker.

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):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Lutetia.

Glaslan (Paper).

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

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

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[42] pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Distribution:

[New York] : Distributed in America by Random House ...

Manufacture:

[San Francisco] : Printed at the Grabhorn Press, in April, 1929.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Fountain Press, 1929.

Notes:

Ostensibly "sonnets which Gerald Musgrave composed (or, more strictly speaking, paraphrased) during the course of his journeying toward Antan"--Editorial note.

"Of this book seven hundred and eighteen copies, of which six hundred and seventy-six are for sale, have been printed at The Grabhorn Press, in April, 1929. Distributed in America by Random House, and in Great Britain by Grant Richards and Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press, Ltd. Portrait by William H. Cotton. Each copy signed by the author. This is copy number [blank]"--Colophon.

"Quotation, last line, decoration on title page, five initials, printer's device (N) below colophon, and borders around headings printed in orange. Headpiece portrait by William H. Cotton. Type Lutetia, handset; paper Glaslan. Bound in gray decorated boards with gray cloth back; gray label printed in black and gold on back ... With the exception of the burlesque portrait of James Branch Cabell, all the decorations and initials were made by the printers out of very thin strips of brass technically called 'rule.' The original colophon page was cancelled and a new one inserted because the publishers altered their arrangements for the book's distribution."--Heller.

Deckled edges, fore- and tail edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is signed by the author and "Out of Series".

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 69 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), signed by the author on half-title leaf, of a limited edition of 718 copies of which 676 were for sale. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

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 is number 382.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 118

OCLC:

2515775