The golden touch / by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; decorated & illuminated by Valenti Angelo for the Peter Pauper Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Walpole Printing Office, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midas (Legendary character)--Juvenile literature.

Midas.

Midas (Legendary character).

Greek mythology.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Lutetia.

Canson and Montgolfier (Paper)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Willoughby, Mary Alice (autograph, April 12 1940) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

39 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Walpole Printing Office

Place of Publication:

[Mount Vernon, N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, [1939]

Summary:

A retelling of the story of King Midas, whose love of gold lead to the curse of being granted his wish, that all he touched would turn into gold.

Notes:

From the "Wonder book for boys and girls."

"Three hundred eighty-five copies of this book have been set by hand in Lutetia type, and printed on mould-made Canson and Montgolfier paper at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

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

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 197 (page 54)

OCLC:

4281982