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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933, author.

Contributor:

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Genre:

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 : frontispiece, plates ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, MDCCCXIV [1914], 1903.

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 balsom bough.

A song after sundown.

Notes:

Binding signed M A --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.

OCLC:

17853358