Tennessee's Partner / by Bret Harte ; including an introduction by William Dallam Armes ; the frontispiece in photogravure from a painting by Albertine Randall Wheelan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, author.

Contributor:

Armes, William Dallam, 1860- writer of introduction.

Wheelan, Albertine Randall, illustrator.

Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947, typographer.

Paul Elder and Company, publisher.

Tomoyé Press, printer.

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

Series:

Western classics ; no. three.

Western classics ; no. three

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century.

American fiction.

California--19th century--Fiction.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Western fiction.

Limitation statements (Publishing) -- California -- San Francisco -- 1907.

Private press books (Printing)

Fabriano (paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

O'Malley, Carl J. (autograph, February 7, 1908) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], xiv, [2], 38, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations (black-&-white), frontispiece, plate ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

New York, [New York] : Tomoyé Press.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, [California] ; and New York, [New York] : Paul Elder and Company, [1907]

Notes:

Title vignette; manufacture statement transposed from colophon.

"Here ends No. three of the Western classics, being Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte, the introduction by William Dallam Armes. The photogravure frontispiece by Albertine Randall Wheelan. Of this first edition one thousand copies have been issued, printed upon Fabriano handmade paper. The typography designed by J.H. Nash. Published by Paul Elder and Company, and done into a book for them at the Tomoye Press, New York City, in the year Nineteen Hundred and Seven."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

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

OCLC:

39644005