The return / by John Malmesbury Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, John Malmesbury, author.

Contributor:

Swart, John Bernhardt, -1922, printer.

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)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Fiction.

Napoleon.

World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918.

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.

Genre:

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Fiction.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[6], 14, [2] pages, [3] leaves of plates : mounted plates ; 15 cm

Manufacture:

San Francisco : Tomoye Press

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Paul Elder and Co., 1914.

Summary:

An imaginary account of the return of Napoleon to conduct the present war.

Notes:

An imaginary account of the return of Napoleon to conduct the present war.

"This edition is limited to five hundred copies printed from type and type distributed."--page [1] in front.

"Published ... under the direction of John Bernhardt Swart at ... Tomoye Press."--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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket. It is copy number 300.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has, laid in, an 8 page translation of the work, as 'Le Retour", translated by Edward J. Dupuy. However, pages 3-4 are wanting. No imprint given.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has bookseller's sticker on lower back inside cover for: Brentano's New York.

OCLC:

6674202