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The deserted village / by Oliver Goldsmith ; to which is prefaced some notes concerning a little journey to "Sweet Auburn" as written by Elbert Hubbard.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 441
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
- 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) (both copies)
- Scribner, Edwin Monroe (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 55 pages ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Shop, 1898.
- Notes:
- Illuminated initials.
- The body of the text is in Bookman and 470 copies were printed in two colors on John Dickinson water marked paper with #'s 1-40 being specially illumined. It is bound in paper over boards. All copies have hand drawn initial letters. Additionally, 170 copies were printed on Japan Vellum and according to McKenna nine of these copies were specially illuminated. All copies were signed by or for Elbert Hubbard in his name.
- Prefatory essay, by Elbert Hubbard, originally appeared as chapter on Goldsmith in his Little journeys to the homes of good men and great, published 1895.
- 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 specially hand illumined by C.S. (Clara Schlegel?) 12/13/98. Number 9 of 470. Bound in beige boards with a green cloth spine. Signed by Hubbard.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 is number 181 of 470. Bound in beige boards with a green cloth spine. Signed by Hubbard. Illumined initials.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 21
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-017-98
- Other Format:
- Online version: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. Deserted village.
- OCLC:
- 826365971
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