This is the essay on art and life / as written by Vernon Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (RBC copy)

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Hubbard, Bertha C. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

91 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Essay on art and life

Art and life

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896.

Notes:

The body of the text is set in Old Style Antique. The regular edition of this book was produced in an edition of 352 copies, printed in two colors on Japan vellum, and bound in paper over boards with a buckram spine. McKenna states that the edition of 352 was suede bound but I do not believe there were any of these bound in suede at least not initially. Additionally, 109 copies were bound in paper over boards with a buckram spine. All copies signed by Bertha C. Hubbard.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

All copies hand illumined.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare has copy 77 of 109.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is from the Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 224. With a ms. note by Elbert Hubbard: "Benefit humanity? Yes, look after the party under your hat and you have task enough. (Signed) Elbert Hubbard.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 1

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-003-96

OCLC:

16925931