A new dictionary of quotations on historical principles from ancient and modern sources / selected and edited by H. L. Mencken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, editor.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quotations, English.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1347 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Norwood, Massachusetts : Composed, printed, and bound by The Plimpton Press.

Other Title:

New dictionary of quotations

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

Notes:

With half-title.

"First edition".

"This book is based upon a collection of quotations begun in 1918 or thereabout for my own use. Its purpose was to keep track of sayings that, for one reason or another, interested me and seemed worth remembering, but that, also for one reason or another, were not in the existing quotation-books. The collection grew steadily, helped by the contributions of friends who knew of it, and there arose inevitably the notion that it might be worth printing."--From preface written by H. L. Mencken.

"The text of this book is set in Caledonia, a Linotype face designed by W. A. Dwiggins ... Mr. Dwiggins contrived the typographic scheme and designed the binding and jacket."

Printed in double columns.

Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Front cover has shield from Mencken arms. Back cover has Borzoi emblem blindstamped in lower right hand corner.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Burton Rascoe.

OCLC:

338639