The man with the hoe / by Edwin Markham ; written after seeing Millet's world-famous painting ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940, author.

Contributor:

Coyle, Ray Frederick, illustrator.

Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947, printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 2.

[Publication ; number 2]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875. Man with a hoe--Poetry.

Millet, Jean-François.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon Old Style.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Original Old Style Italic.

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[14] pages : portrait ; 29 cm

Manufacture:

[Place of printing not identified] : John Henry Nash.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, MDCCCCXVI [1916]

Contents:

A comment by the poet

The man with the hoe.

Notes:

"Three hundred copies of this book were made for the Book Club of California by John Henry Nash. The portrait and decoration are by Ray F. Coyle. San Francisco MDCCCCXVI"--Colophon.

"Frontispiece portrait, decorative border (repeated on each page) by Ray F. Coyle. Decoration on title, two opening initials in red; each page within blue rules. Type Original Old Style Italic and Caslon Old Style, handset. Paper hand-made ... 300 copies printed by John Henry Nash ...The book was sent free to the Club membership, numbering around 200 at that time. Of the remaining 100 copies, 75 were offered for sale at $2.00 each.The balance of 25 were reserved for the benefit of new members"--Book Club of California.

"Accompanying the book is a photograph by Gabriel Moulin of Millet’s famous picture which inspired the poem. This is tipped in a four-page sepia folder with text on the first page within a floral border in blue, rules in gold, printed by John Henry Nash. As the folder for the Moulin photograph is a trifle larger than the book itself it could not be laid in. Consequently it got separated from the parent volume and mislaid; hence its scarcity today."--Book Club of California.

Binding: quarter linen back over pale blue boards; white spine label printed with title; deckled edges (untrimmed).

"A comment by the poet": Pages [4]-[9].

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy imperfect: without accompanying photograph tipped in four-page folder.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 143 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 300 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper and back pastedown.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

Cited in:

Book Club of California. The hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol1-The-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 2

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 43

OCLC:

4128276