The flight of the duchess.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Browning, Robert, 1812-1889, author.

Contributor:

• Woodroffe, Paul, illustrator.
• Binns, Raymond, rubricator, illuminator.
• Rothenstein, William, 1872-1945, attributed name.
• Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, printer.
• Essex House Press, publisher, printer.
• Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• [The fourteenth book of the great poems series]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English poetry--19th century.

Genre:

• Private press books (Printing)
• Errata lists (Printing)
• Printers' devices (Printing)
• Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
• Vellum printings (Printing)
• Limitation statements (Publishing)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.
• Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
• Case bindings (Binding)
• Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
• Vellum bindings (Binding)
• Vellum endleaves (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)
• Terry, Roderick, 1849-1933 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

42, [2] pages : 1 color illustration ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

[Chipping Campden] : Printed ... under the care of C.R. Ahsbee at the Essex House Press, Campden, Gloucestershire, MDCCCCV [1905]

Place of Publication:

[London] : Published by the Essex House Press, 16 Brook Street, Bond Street, London, W., [1905]

Notes:

• Caption title.
• "Here ends Robert Browning's Flight of the duchess. The frontispiece by Will. Rothenstein. Printed among the great poems of the language under the care of C.R. Ahsbee at the Essex House Press, Campden, Gloucestershire. MDCCCCV."--Explicit. ("Will. Rothenstein" corrected in the erratum to "Paul Woodroffe.)
• "Published by the Essex House Press, 16 Brook Street, Bond Street, London, W. 125 copies only, and all on vellum. This copy is No. [blank]"--Colophon.
• "The fourteenth book of the great poems series. Caslon type, with woodcut frontispiece by Paul Woodroffe. The illuminated letters by Raymond Binns."--Ashbee.
• Printer's device on page 42.
• Erratum (printed in red) on page [43].
• Binding: full parchment; printer's device and motto ("SOVL IS FORM") stamped in blind on left board; gold-stamped spine title; parchment endpapers.

Local Notes:

• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 19 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 125 copies, all on vellum. See colophon.
• 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 armorial bookplate of Roderick Terry affixed to front pastedown.
• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has guard tissues laid in between most leaves.

Cited in:

Ashbee, C.R. The private press, page 80

OCLC:

21642997