Dreamthorp : eight essays / by Alexander Smith ; with wood-engravings by Boyd Hanna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Alexander, 1830?-1867, author.

Contributor:

Hanna, Boyd, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--Scottish authors.

English essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Rare books.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.

Hamilton (Paper)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

138 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon, New York : Peter Pauper Press, [1947]

Contents:

Dreamthorp

Men of letters

On the importance of a man to himself

On the writing of essays

On death and the fear of dying

Books and gardens

An essay on an old subject

Winter.

Notes:

In slip case.

"The text of this edition is set in the Janson types, and is printed on Hamilton paper made for the Peter Pauper Press" -- Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 133 (page 37)

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, Alexander, 1830?-1867. Dreamthorp.

OCLC:

2539083