Miss Kilmansegg and her precious leg : a golden legend / by Tom Hood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845, author.

Contributor:

Savage, Reginald, illustrator.

Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, printer.

Edward Arnold (Publishers), publisher.

Samuel Buckley & Co., publisher.

Essex House Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Novels in verse.

Genre:

Novels in verse.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Gretton, John Gretton, Baron, 1867-1947 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], 94, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

[Campden, Gloucestershire] : Printed ... under the care of C.R. Ashbee at the Essex House Press, Campden, Gloucestershire, A.D. 1904.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Published in England by Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand ; [New York] : & in America by Samuel Buckley & Co., 100 William Street, New York, [1904]

Notes:

Poem.

"Here ends Thos. Hood's 'Miss Kilmansegg,' printed with three drawings by Reginald Savage under the care of C.R. Ashbee at the Essex House Press, Campden, Gloucestershire, A.D. 1904. Published in England by Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand, & in America by Samuel Buckley & Co., 100 William Street, New York. 200 copies on paper, 4 on vellum. No. [blank]"--Colophon.

"Printed in Caslon type. With woodcut frontispiece and two other illustrations by Reginald Savage: 'Her Fancy Ball,' 'Her Christening,' and 'Her Accident.' 200 copies with 4 on vellum. Cardboard and linen back cover. Octavo."--Ashbee, The private press.

Printer's device on page [95].

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 174 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 200 copies on paper. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has a few manuscript notes in pencil on front free endpaper.

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 armorial bookplate of John Gretton (1st Baron Gretton, 1867-1947) on front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in half linen over blue paper boards; printed title label on left board; printed title label on spine; deckled edges, untrimmed; tissue guard laid in with each illustration.

Cited in:

Ashbee, C.R. A bibliography of the Essex House Press, page 21

Ashbee, C.R. The private press, page 74

OCLC:

3250651