Little rivers : a book of essays in profitable idleness / by Henry Van Dyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933, author.

Contributor:

DuMond, Frank Vincent, 1865-1951, illustrator.

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

Caxton Press (New York, N.Y.), printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outdoor life.

Fishing.

American literature--19th century.

American literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Pictorial cloth bindings -- United States -- 1903.

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:

[10], 348 pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations, frontispiece, plates ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

New York, New York : The Caxton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1903]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Illustrations from drawings by F.V. DuMond"--Preliminary p. [9]. Prelude -- Little rivers -- A leaf of spearmint --Ampersand --A handful of heather -- The Ristigouche from a horse-yacht -- Alpenrosen and goat's milk -- Au large -- Trout-fishing in the Traun -- At the sign of the balsam bough -- A song after sundown.

Contents:

Prelude

Little rivers

A leaf of spearmint

Ampersand

A handful of heather

The Ristigouche from a horse-yacht

Alpenrosen and goat's milk

Au large

Trout-fishing in the Traun

At the sign of the balsam bough

A song after sundown.

Notes:

Title in red and black; frontispiece guard sheet present; manufacture and copyright statements from title verso.

"Illustrations from drawings by F.V. DuMond"--Preliminary p. [9].

Binding signed: MA [i.e. Margaret Armstrong].

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 some uncut leaves.

Cited in:

Gullans & Espey (1991) 279

OCLC:

675669