The lost word : a Christmas legend of long ago / by Henry Van Dyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933, author.

Contributor:

Richards, Amy, active 1896-1918, binding designer.

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

De Vinne Press, typography.

University Press (New York, N.Y.), printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas stories, American.

Publishers' bindings--United States--19th century--Specimens.

Publishers' bindings.

United States.

Genre:

Christmas stories.

Specimens.

Christmas fiction.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1899.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1899.

Private press books (Printing)

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, MDCCCXVIII [1898]

Notes:

Signed binding: AR, attributed to Amy Richards.

Very fine grayish olive green diagonal rib cloth. Gold and green stamping. Double ruled panel with gold lettering and green and gold grapevine border repeated within pair of double rules around edges of cover. Spine lettering has small vine stamped in gold. No decoration on back. Cream endpapers. Untrimmed.

Typography by the De Vinne Press. Presswork by the University Press (New York?)--verso of title page.

Local Notes:

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 sticker for bookseller pasted on back cover: Brentano's. New York.

OCLC:

409141