Abregé de l'art poetique françois / par Pierre de Ronsard a Alphonse Delbene, abbé de Haute-Combe en Savoie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ronsard, Pierre de, 1524-1585, author.

Contributor:

Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931, type designer.

Pissarro, Lucien, 1863-1944, designer, printer.

Pissarro, Esther, engraver, printer.

Hacon & Ricketts, publisher.

Eragny Press, printer.

Moulin d'Arches, papermaker.

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

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

French language--Versification.

French language.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Unopened edges (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Vale.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Greek.

Case bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Calowell, John (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Fountain, Gerard (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

44 pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

[Hammersmith, London] : Le livre fut achevé d'imprimer ... [par Lucien et Esther Pissarro] sur leurs presses, The Brook, Hammersmith, London, W., en janvier MCMIII. [January 1903]

Place of Publication:

London : Hacon & Ricketts, 17 Craven Street, Strand, MDCCCCIII [1903]

Notes:

"Les ornements et les lettres ornées ont été dessinés par Lucien Pissarro et gravés par Esther Pissarro, et le livre fut achevé d'imprimer en janvier MCMIII. sur leurs presses, The Brook, Hammersmith, London, W. Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 226 exemplaires dont 200 pour la vente."--Colophon.

"[T]wo borders, eighteen ornaments, twelve initials, one pressmark in black and white ... Pressmark III, 76 mm. diameter (Fern 112 (SB 152))"--Genz.

"Paper: Arches. Leaf: 213 x 142 mm. Type: Vale and Greek"--Genz.

"Binding: Quarter buff paper, gold stamped on upper cover: RONSARD. | (double type orn: leaf) | ABREGÉ DE | L'ART POE- | TIQUE. Michallet blue paper boards witha repeat pattern of 'May blossom' (Fern 339 (SB 216)) printed in buff and green."--Genz. Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has autograph ("John Calowell") in pencil on front free endpaper; autograph ("Gerard Fountain") in pencil on front free endpaper.

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

Cited in:

Genz, M.D. History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, EP15

OCLC:

3856853