1 option
The king's henchman : a play in three acts / by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M6119 927kb
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edgar, King of England, 943 or 944-975--Drama.
- Edgar.
- Edgar, King of England, 943 or 944-975.
- Aethelwold, Earl of East Anglia, -962--Drama.
- Aethelwold.
- Aethelwold, Earl of East Anglia, -962.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Taylor, Deems, 1885-1956 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, music, facsimile (folded) ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- Artists' edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, MCMXXVII [1927]
- Notes:
- Title page printed in red and black.
- "C-B"
- "The Artist's Edition of The King's Henchman printed from type on Tuscany hand-made paper, is limited to five hundred numbered copies, each containing the autograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay and a facsimile page from the operatic score signed by the composer, Deems Taylor. Each volume also contains three proof etchings of Joseph Urban's stage sets for the three acts of the opera"--Prelim.
- Frontispiece signed "HC" (Harry Cimino).
- Contains cast list for first performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, February 17, 1927.
- Head- and tail-pieces.
- White cloth spine with white paper label lettered in black and decorated in green. Gray-green paper boards with white cloth corners. Gray-green endpapers.
- Based on the story of Edgar, Aethelwold and Aelfrida.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is 234 signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
- Culture Class Collection copy has extra spine label pasted to back pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.
- Cited in:
- Yost, K. Bibliography of the works of Edna St. Vicent Millay, p. 115 (33)
- OCLC:
- 34013484
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.