Shreds and patches of history : found mostly in Virginia / by Mildred Beatty Pierce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierce, Mildred Beatty.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virginia--History.

Virginia.

History.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

110 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : plates ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Shreds and patches of Virginia history

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, [©1906]

Contents:

"Eastward ho.!"

A modern Pompeii.

Quaint old Yorktown.

Portal of the past

Williamsburg.

Old Bruton, church of the day before yesterday.

Imperial Richmond.-Just touching upon Norfolk.

St. John's church, Hampton, Virginia.

Notes:

Title within ornamental border.

The body of the text is set in Caslon. The book was printed on Roycroft water marked paper. Additionally the book contains 24 pages of glossy paper with black & white photo illustrations of houses, churches, tombstones, etc. located in the Tidewater area of Virginia.----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 bound in printed wrappers; gilt title on white cover.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 141

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-121-06

Other Format:

Online version: Pierce, Mildred Beatty. Shreds and patches of history.

OCLC:

2067618