Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton author of "Turrets, Towaers and Temples," "Great Pictures," "Wonders of Nature," "Paris," and "A Guide to the Opera," and translator of "The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner". With numerous illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930.

Contributor:

Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), 1862-1961.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palaces.

Castles.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 395. pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908.

Notes:

"First edition, published October, 1901."--T.p. verso.

"In making a selection from the large number of castles and palaces that might be included, I have endeavoured to choose those that would appeal equally to the lovers of fine architecture and to the lovers of history and legend ... The translations have been made especially for this book; and in order to give as much continuous history of each building as possible, I have sometimes been compelled to cut. Otherwise, the essays remain unchanged."--Preface.

Descriptions in the volume are from such authors as Theophile Gautier, Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Leigh Hunt, Edward Lear, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Green cloth covers with elaborate gold stamped design on front cover and spine by Alice Cordelia Morse. Top edge gilt stained.

The gold design by Alice Cordelia Morse was also used for the cover of "Historic Buildings of America".

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy has damage to lower half of front cover. Back cover discolored.

Frost Collection copy has front free endpaper wanting and half-title page disbound.

OCLC:

978911005