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Christabel, Kubla Khan, Fancy in nubibus, and Song from Zapolya / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Eragny 5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--19th century.
- English poetry.
- Fine books--England--London--Specimens.
- Fine books.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Specimens.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Brook.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gilt edges (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Leather bindings (Binding)
- Signed bindings (Binding)
- Poems.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Brian Frost and Company (Bath, England) (stamp) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], 41, [3] pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Hammersmith] : Printed by [L. Pissarro and E. Pissarro] at their Eragny Press, The Brook, Hammersmith, & finished in October 1904.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Sold by the Eragny Press, London ; [New York] : and John Lane, New York, [1904]
- Notes:
- "The frontispiece has been designed & engraved on the wood by L. Pissarro; the border and initial letters were designed by L. Pissarro & engraved by E. Pissarro. The book has been printed by them at their Eragny Press, The Brook, Hammersmith, and finished in October 1904. Sold by the Eragny Press, London, and John Lane, New York."--Colophon.
- "This edition is strictly limited to 226 paper and 10 vellum copies, of which 200 paper and 8 vellum copies are for sale."--Page [44]..
- "Paper and dimensions: Arches. Leaf: 210 x 135 mm. Type: Brook"--Genz.
- ""[O]ne chiaroscuro wood-engraved illustration in green; large initial in orange and green; three initials and pressmark in black and white ... Pressmark III, 76 mm. diameter (Fern 112 (SB 152))."--Genz.
- "Binding: Quarter gray paper, gold-stamped on upper left corner: (type orn: trefoil) CHRISTABEL, | KUBLA KHAN, | FANCY IN NUBI- | BUS, & A SONG, | BY SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE. Green paper boards with a repeat pattern of 'violets' (NIF) printed in mauve and dark green."--Genz.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is one of 226 paper copies, 200 of which were for sale. See page [44].
- 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 bound by Brian Frost & Company, Bath, England (with his stamp on verso of front free endpaper) in full dark red morocco; boards ruled in gold; 2 raised bands on spine; gold-ruled spine panels; brief title and author's surname stamped in gold on spine; turn-ins triple-ruled in gold; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
- Cited in:
- Genz, M.D. History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, EP21
- Tomkinson, G.W. Modern presses, p. 64
- Other Format:
- Online version: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Poems. Christabel, Kubla Khan, Fancy in nubibus, and Song from Zapolya.
- OCLC:
- 1365345
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