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A lodging for the night : being a tale concerning one of life's lesser hardships--commonly called trouble / as told by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 118
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Villon, François, 1431-1463--Fiction.
- Villon, François.
- Villon, François, 1431-1463.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Roycroft 116)
- Jehooute, Hattie (autograph) (Roycroft 116)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 44 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, Erie County, N.Y. : Printed by the Roycrofters at their shop ..., [1902]
- Notes:
- Title within hand-colored, ornamental border; each part has hand-colored, ornamental head-piece.
- "Presswork finished on October Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred Two."--Colophon.
- The text body is set in Bruce Roman with regular edition printed on Roycroft watermarked handmade paper with a suede binding. A limited edition of 100 was bound 3/4 Levant, printed on Japan Vellum, and hand illuminated.----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.
- Roycroft 116 is bound in 3/4 leather. Number 60 of 100 on Japan vellum. Signed by Hubbard. Illumined by Hattie Jehooute.
- Roycroft 117 & 118 are bound in full suede, cover has gilt title in rectangular surround. Roycroft 118 has a card tied to first leaf reading: Presented with compliments of The Philistine.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 81
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-071-02
- Other Format:
- Online version: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Lodging for the night.
- OCLC:
- 13235398
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