Near Avalon / by William Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, author.

Contributor:

Fowler, Alfred, 1889- printer.

Cartiere Miliani Fabriano, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Unopened edges.

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Poems.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Fowler, Alfred, 1889- (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4] leaves (the first and last leaves blanks) ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Kansas City : Imprinted by H. Alfred Fowler ..., 1911.

Notes:

Cover title.

Colophon (printed in red) reads: Imprinted by H. Alfred Fowler, at Kansas City, in December of 1911.

Without foliation.

Issued in blue paper wrappers with title printed on front wrapper. Textblock printed on Cartiere Miliani Fabriano hand-made paper; edges deckled and untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("Number six of fourty copies.") in blue ink on leaf [3].

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has presentation bookplate ("Presented to W.F. Hopson, ESQ, With the Compliments of H. Alfred Fowler") recording the gift of this volume from the printer to William Fowler Hopson (the name supplied in manuscript) on page [1].

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: leaves unopened at head edge.

OCLC:

896741308