A dream of John Ball : being an idyll in prose / by William Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, William, 1834-1896.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ball, John, -1381--Fiction.

Ball, John.

Ball, John, -1381.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

The body of text is Antiqua Old Style and 650 copies were printed on Boxmoor paper and bound in paper over boards with a cloth spine. Additionally, there was an edition of 100 depicted above that was printed on Whatman paper and bound the same as the regular edition.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Hand-illumined.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Roycroft 86 is number 27 of 100 on Whatman paper. Bound in gray boards, with white buckram spine. Hand illumined.

Roycroft 87 is number 296 of 650. Bound in 1/2 suede, russet boards, gilt title in caps, not illumined.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 23

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-025-98

OCLC:

2767751