Sonnets from the Portuguese / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; to which is prefaced a "Little journey" to the home of the author, written by Elbert Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--United States--20th century., East Aurira, N.Y., The Roycrofters, 1898--Specimens.

Printing.

United States.

Genre:

Specimens.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

[East Aurora, N.Y.] : [Roycroft Shop], [1898]

Notes:

Illuminated initials in red and blue.

Colophon: So here endeth Sonnets from the Portuguese with a "Little journey" to the home of the author Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as written by Elbert Hubbard. Done into a book at the Roycroft shop that is in E. Aurora, New York, U.S.A. Completed this thirteenth day of May, MDCCCXCVIII.

"Of this edition there were printed four hundred and eighty copies and the types then distributed. This book is no. ...[Signed] Elbert Hubbard."

The body of the text is Old Style Antiqua and 480 copies were printed on Whatman paper. The book was bound in paper over boards with a cloth spine.--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.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 32

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-020-98

OCLC:

4650183