The happy prince : a fairy tale / by Oscar Wilde ; with a foreword by Hal W. Trovillion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, author.

Trovillion, Violet, 1890-1979, author, publisher, writer of preface.

Contributor:

Trovillion, Hal W., 1879-1967, book designer, publisher, writer of preface.

Goodacre, William, illustrator.

Trovillion Private Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Artists' books.

Letterpress printing.

Papermaking.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Kelmscott (paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Trovillion, Violet, 1890-1979 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Trovillion, Hal W., 1879-1967 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Physical Description:

[6], v, [3], 16, [6] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 x 13 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Herrin, Ill. : Trovillion Private Press, [1940]

Notes:

Title page in red and black.

"Designer: Hal W. Trovillion. Illustrator: William J. Goodacre."

"Set in eleven point Baskerville typeTwo hundred and seventy-seven copies printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper for Violet & Hal W. Trovillion at Trovillion Private Press ... "--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Villain-Wieck Collection copy 1 (Trovillion Press 49) has number 9.

Villain-Wieck Collection copy 2 (Trovillion Press 50) has number 113.

Villain-Wieck Collection copy 3 (Trovillion Press 51) has number 266.

OCLC:

1930253