1 option
Twenty years after / Alexandre Dumas ; with hand-colored illustrations by Edy Legrand and an introduction by Ben Ray Redman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Folio Limited Editions Club 32
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870, author.
- Redman, Ben Ray, 1896-1961, author of introduction.
- Standardized Title:
- Vingt ans après. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Rare books.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Legrand, Edy, 1892-1970 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 496 pages, [32] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Peter Beilenson
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Limited Editions Club, 1958.
- Summary:
- A novel of the regency of Anne of Austria.
- Notes:
- "Fifteen hundred copies have been made ... by Peter Beilenson, The illustrations were drawn by Edy Legrand; they were printed by the Photogravure & Color Company, and then hand colored through stencils in the studio of Walter Fischer. The paper was especially made by the Curtis Paper company, and the binding was done by the Russell-Rutter Company ... Signed by the illustrator"--Colophon.
- Issued in slipcase.
- "All of the special contents of this edition are copyright 1958 by The George Macy Companies, Inc."--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 1030 and signed by Edy Legrand.
- Cited in:
- Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, 283
- Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 283
- OCLC:
- 607553752
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.