The sonnets of Shakespeare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

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

Standardized Title:

Sonnets. Roycroft. 1899

Language:

English

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:

3 preliminary leaves, clxvi pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Manufacture:

East Aurora, New York : Roycroft Shop, 1899.

Notes:

Edited by Elbert Hubbard.

Title in green and red.

The body of the text is in Old Style Antiqua and there were 980 copies of this book bound in paper over boards with a suede spine and corners. Capitals were hand illuminated and this edition was numbered and signed in Elbert Hubbard's name. There were twelve copies that were printed on Vellum and bound full Levant.----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 201. On Roycroft wove.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 52

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-041-99

OCLC:

38536282