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Ballads of a book-worm : being a rythmic record of thoughts, fancies, & adventures a-collecting / by Irving Browne.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 10
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Browne, Irving, 1835-1899.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book collecting--Poetry.
- Book collecting.
- Books and reading--Poetry.
- Books and reading.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, Erie County, N.Y. : Roycrofters, 1899.
- Notes:
- "Of this edition there are printed and illumined by hand eight hundred and fifty copies. Each volume is signed and numbered [by Elbert Hubbard]"--Page [3].
- The body of the text is in Old Style Antiqua 850 copies printed on Whatman paper ... The title page and initials were hand illumined in all editions. This book was bound in paper over boards.--cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- Local Notes:
- 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 291.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 36
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-039-99
- OCLC:
- 1372502
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