Maud : a monodrama / by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, author.

Contributor:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, printer, type designer.

Macmillan & Co., publisher.

Kelmscott Press, printer.

Joseph Batchelor & Son, 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.

Private presses--England--19th century.

Private presses.

England.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Cancellation (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Watermarks (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Golden.

Silk ties (Binding)

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Polak, Johan, 1928-1992 (stamp) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 69, [3] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Manufacture:

[Hammersmith] : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the Couty of Middlesex, and finished on the 11th day of August, 1893.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Published by Macmillan & Co., Bedford Street, Strand, [30 September 1893]

Notes:

Publication date from Peterson.

"Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the Couty of Middlesex, and finished on the 11th day of August, 1893. Published by Macmillan & Co., Bedford Street, Strand."--Colophon.

"500 paper copies (2 gns.); 5 vellum copies (not for sale)."--Peterson.

Signatures: [a]⁴ b⁸(±b8) c⁸(±c2,c5) d-e⁸ [f]⁴(±f3) (leaves [a]1-[a]2 and [f]4 blanks; leaves b1 and e1 unsigned).

"[F]our cancellans leaves were printed (pp. 15-16, 19-20, 25-6, 69-70) and were perhaps inserted in at least a few copies"--Peterson.

"[Octavo] ... Flower (2) paper ...Golden type."--Peterson.

Title on leaf [a]4v and text of leaf b1r within ornamental woodcut borders (10a and 10; see Peterson). Twelve-, ten- and six-line initials, most with floriate extensions, throughout text. Printer's device on leaf f3v.

Stanza numbers in red.

"Binding: Limp vellum with silk ties. Stamped in gold on spine: 'MAUD BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON' (Golden type)."--Peterson.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy imperfect: cancellans leaves c5 and f3 wanting. All cancellanda are present; cancellans leaves b8 and c2 are laid in.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is one of 500 paper copies.

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has stamp ("EX BIBLIOTHECA JOHAN B.W. POLAK") on back pastedown.

Cited in:

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2017

Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press, A17

OCLC:

827625