A baker's dozen / by Llewelyn Powys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939, author.

Contributor:

Noheimer, Mathias, artist.

Trovillion Private Press, printer, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 (autograph) (Kislak copy)

Noheimer, Mathias (autograph) (Kislak copy)

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

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

Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Noheimer, Mathias (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 87 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations. ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Herrin, Ill. : Trovillion Private Press, at the sign of the Silver Horse, 1939.

Contents:

The New Year.

The village shop.

The memory of one day.

Childhood memories.

Weymouth Harbour.

The haymaking months.

Herring gulls.

Tintinhull memories.

A Montacute field.

The harvest.

Buffalo intruders.

Montacute Hill.

A Somerset Christmas.

Notes:

Illustrated lining-papers.

"This limited edition ... consists of 493 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, of which 298 are for sale in America, and 195 reserved for British trade."--colophon.

Signatures and numbered on second preliminary leaf.

Essays.

Photograph on front and back endpapers.

Artist: Mathias Noheimer.

Local Notes:

Kislak has copy 394.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Villain-Wieck Collection copy is number 147. In slipcase.

OCLC:

3144802