The essays of Elia / by Charles Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

Contributor:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace), 1856-1915.

Roycroft Shop.

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

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) (both copies)

Deane, Harriet R. (autograph, Christmas 1899) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Shop, 1899.

Contents:

The child-angel: a dream

New Year's eve

Mrs. Battle's opinions on wheat

All fool's day

A Quaker's meeting

My relations

Valentine's day

Mackery end in Hertfordshire

Imperfect sympathies

Witches and other night fears

My first play

Dream-children: a reverie

On some of the old actors

A dissertation upon roast pig.

Notes:

Text in red and black throughout.

Compiled by Elbert Hubbard.

The book is printed on Kelmscott handmade paper in Old Style Antiqua type in two colors. The printing run consisted of a printing of 970 bound in suede. The First 100 and at least some of the remainder have a blind stamped cover designed by W. W. Denslow. The first 100 also have special water color sketch illumination. Both editions of The Essays of Elia were signed in Elbert Hubbard's name. Regular edition has just initials illumined.----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 1 is number 19, signed by Hubbard, with note by him that numbers 1 to 100 are specially illumined. Bound in full suede, 2-line gilt title within horizontal surround with rounded ends, and patterned silk doublures.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 1 is number 396, signed by Hubbard. Bound in full suede, 3-line gilt title within heraldic surround with rounded ends, and patterned silk doublures. In case.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 40

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-033-99

Other Format:

Online version: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Essays of Elia.

OCLC:

46922311