The light of Asia : being the life and teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and founder of Buddhism as told by an Indian Buddhist / by Sir Edwin Arnold ; illustrated by Valenti Angelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904, author.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, 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):

Gautama Buddha--Poetry.

Gautama Buddha.

Buddhism--Poetry.

Buddhism.

Genre:

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Weiss.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Civilité.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

141 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1946?]

Notes:

Written in verse.

Illustrated title pages.

"Nineteen hundred fifty copies, set in the Weiss and the Civilité types, have been printed on specially-made Peter Pauper Press paper."--Colophon.

Issued in slipcase, with illustrated title label.

Not in Donnelly & Dobkin.

Local Notes:

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

OCLC:

4445497