Sir Galahad : a Christmas mystery / William Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, author.

Contributor:

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, book designer.

Hinton, Walter Haskell, 1886-1980, illustrator.

Blue Sky Press, printer, publisher.

H.W. Caslon & Co., type designer.

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

Subjects (All):

Galahad (Arthurian legendary character)--Poetry.

Galahad.

Christmas poetry.

Galahad (Arthurian legendary character).

Genre:

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Unopened edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Case bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Printed paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Bookplates (Provenance)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 14) (Blue Sky 24))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 14) (Blue Sky 24))

Tracy, George Weare, 1865-1942 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 14))

Price, Warwick James, 1870-1934 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 24))

Physical Description:

[26] leaves, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Blue Sky Press, [1904]

Notes:

In verse.

"Here endeth the poem, Sir Galahad, a Christmas mystery, by William Morris. This book was designed by Thomas Wood Stevens, and lettered under his direction. The frontispiece is from a painting by Walter H. Hinton. Of this edition there have been printed and published by the Blue Sky Press, in Chicago, five hundred copies on paper and twenty-five copies on Japan vellum, this being number [blank]"--Colophon.

Printed in black and red; printer's device on title leaf.

Black cloth shelfback with printed paper label; gray paper over boards with gilt title and leaf border; printed gray endpapers with black lettering, oak leaves and acorns, within ruled compartments. Untrimmed edges; unopened head edges.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 327.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: frontispiece wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has the label of the Tuttle Company Book Shop, Rutland, Vt.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Blue Sky 14 & 24) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 14) imperfect: frontispiece illustration wanting; paper spine label wanting.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 14) is number 2 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 525 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 14) has armorial bookplate of George Weare Tracy (1865-1942) affixed to front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 14): rubrication: manuscript underlines supplied in red to colophon; endpapers, title leaf and initials hand-colored.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 24) is number 56 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 525 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 24) has manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 24) has illustrated bookplate of Warwick James Price (1870-1934) affixed to front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 24) has printed paper slip with bookseller's description (of this copy?) affixed to front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 24) in clear dust jacket.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 221, number 35

OCLC:

3565780