The limerick up to date book / composed and collected by Ethel Watts Mumford ; illustrated and decorated by Ethel Watts Mumford and Addison Mizner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Ethel Watts Mumford, 1878-1940, author.

Contributor:

Mizner, Addison, 1872-1933, illustrator.

Paul Elder and Company, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gotham Book Mart 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 wit and humor.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Wheeler, Mary Spalding (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

112 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

San Francisco : The Tomoyé Press.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Published by Paul Elder and Company, 1903.

Notes:

Limericks on each of the four illustrated and printed leaves per month. Verso leaves entitled "Memoranda" in black with decorated headpieces in orange.

Green textured cloth boards with white paper label with monkey and owl illustrationon front cover.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Ex Libris Mary Spalding Wheeler Hinc Mihi Salus" on front pastedown.

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 has inscription: "To a punster(?) from a B---ster. 1904"

OCLC:

338191