Of gardens : an essay / by Francis Bacon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, author.

Contributor:

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

Pissarro, Esther, printer, engraver.

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

Eragny Press, printer.

Hacon & Ricketts, publisher.

Arnold & Foster, Ltd., papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Watermarks (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Vale.

Case bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Quinn, John, 1870-1924 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

23, [5] pages : 1 illustration ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

London : E. et L. Pissarro : Eragny Press.

Place of Publication:

London : Hacon & Ricketts Craven St., Strand, MCMII [1902]

Notes:

Printer statement from printer's device on page [26].

"The frontispiece has been designed & engraved by Lucien Pissarro. The double border & initial letters designed by L. Pissarro & engraved by Esther Pissarro."--Page [25].

"This edition is strictly limited to 226 copies of which 200 are for sale."--Page [27].

"Paper and dimensions: Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper with Vale watermark. Leaf: 173 x 95 mm. Type: Vale"--Genz.

"[O]ne black and white wood-engraved illustration, two borders in green, ten initials and one cul-de-lampe in red; pressmark in green ... Pressmark III in green, 76 mm. diameter (Fern 112 (SB 152))"--Genz.

"Binding: Quarter cream paper, gold stamped on upper left cover: (orn: leaf) OF | GARDENS | BY | FRANCIS | BACON. (orn: leaf). Michallet blue paper boards with a repeat pattern of 'rose' (Fern 284 (SB 150)) printed in red and green ink."--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 illustrated bookplate of John Quinn on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Genz, M.D. History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, EP12

OCLC:

1926742