Other people's books : association copies and the stories they tell / introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934- writer of introduction.

Kugeler, Hal, book designer, typographer.

Coventry, Kim, project director.

Rossen, Susan F., editor.

Caxton Club, publisher.

Graphicom (Firm), printer.

Oak Knoll Press, distributor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Association copies of books.

Marginalia--History.

Marginalia.

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

History.

Genre:

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Adobe Caslon.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (inscription, 14 March 2011) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

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

Bishop. Philip R. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 214 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Distribution:

New Castle, Del. : Distributed to the trade by Oak Knoll Books.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Caxton Club, 2011.

Summary:

Consists of 52 essays by 51 authors, each describing a single book from an institutional or private collection.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgments / Kim Coventry

Introduction / G. Thomas Tanselle

From Jensen to Rogers : typographic connections across six centuries / Jill Gage

Americana Vetustissima : Richard Eden's annotated copy of Peter Martyr's Decades of the New World / Earle Havens

The mystery of the gift to the Tsar / Roger S. Baskes

Two eminent Elizabethans / Stephen Parks

Van Meteren's contentious Memorien / James Tanis

The fruits of Johannes Kepler's New astronomy / Bruce Stephenson

"I beegane, to ovrloke this Booke. . ." : Lady Anne Clifford's copy of Titles of honor / Richard J. Kuhta

An unexpected Isaac Newton provenance / Per Rålamb

A bibliophile and an engineer : a 250-year provenance / Ronald K. Smeltzer

A serendipitous acquisition / Paul T. Ruxin

Samuel Johnson's The Prince of Abissinia / Samuel B. Ellenport

A scholar's notepad / Terry I. Seymour

Presidential views of slavery / Stanley Ellis Cushing

The butler did it / Edward Gaynor

Thomas Jefferson and the Bill of Rights / Joel Silver

"Her favourite moral writer" : Jane Austen's Cowper / Garth D. Reese, Jr.

Audubon makes his mark in Philadelphia / Robert McCracken Peck

The peddler and the patroon / Steve Tomashefsky

Dewitt Miller and Robert Southey's copy of The Doctor / Nicholas B. Scheetz

The travels of Abraham Lincoln's copy of The poetical works of Alexander Pope / Thomas A. Horrocks

Pattison's Pope as an index of lives / David L. Vander Meulen

Sealed with his own blood / Richard E. Turley, Jr.

Prairie voices : the Kinzie family in Chicago / Lorna Donley

Whitman and Thoreau meet in Brooklyn / Mark G. Dimunation

Moby-Dick and Melville's whaling mates / Alice Schreyer

Book-running in the Civil War / John P. Chalmers

Clarence S. Darrow : a Chicago lawyer / Ann C. Weller

Oliver Herford draws a self-portrait for his publisher / G. Thomas Tanselle

The hound upon my bookshelf / Jon Lellenberg

From my hands to yours : uncovering the Tynan-Wyndham connection / Philip R. Bishop

Hither-unpublished Obiter Dicta / Jerry Morris

My "Incomparable Max" Beerbohm book / Mark Samuels Lasner

Two Nobel laureates : Bertha von Suttner and Gerhart Hauptmann / Junie L. Sinson

A bibilophile's journey in search of association copies / Millard M. Riggs, Jr.

Keepers of the Floating World / Celia Hilliard

Jack London and Carl Jung / Alan Jutzi

Don't Kidd yourself / Kay Michael Kramer

Shakespeare by heart / Stephen Enniss

The T.S. Eliot-inscribed copy of The great Gatsby / Samuel Streit

Dune beyond dune : John Hall Wheelock and Van Wyck Brooks / George D. Meredith

The industrialist and the socialist / Chatham Ewing

An inscribed book of inscriptions : Chicago inscriptions by Gertrude Stein / Edward C. Hirschland

The writer and his lawyer : James Joyce, Morris Ernst, and Ulysses / Molly Schwartzburg

Gottfried Benn and his publisher Erich Reiss / Dr. Steven Schuyler

Forever Scarlett : Vivien Leigh by Emilio Grau Sala / John Wiley, Jr.

A friendship born on the roof of the world / Robert McCracken Peck

Silent partner / John C. Blew

Historians and the Enlightenment / David Spadafora

Leopold and Gertz / Scott Krafft

The activist priest and absurdist playwright : Daniel Berrigan and Eugène Ionesco / Kathryn DeGraff

Kesey and Kirk: One flew over the cuckoo's nest goes to Hollywood / George Sargent

Piazza Carignano and the social connections between Alain Elkann, Diane von Furstenberg, and Andy Warhol / Richard J. Gemmell.

Notes:

"Project director: Kim Coventry. Editor: Susan F. Rossen. Design and typography: Hal Kugeler ... Printed by Graphicom, Verona, Italy ... The type is Adobe Caslon ..."--Title page verso.

One of 1,000 copies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has inscription: "To Jean-François Vilain whose relentless pursuit of American private press books continues to elicit this collector's ongoing admiration. Philip R. Bishop 14 March 2011 pp.128-131".

ISBN:

9780940550100

0940550105

OCLC:

704281152