Flyleaves / Bernard Shaw ; edited with an introduction by Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950, author.

Contributor:

Laurence, Dan H., editor.

Leary, Daniel J. (Daniel James), 1927- editor.

Morris, Henry, 1925-2019, printer.

Garamond, Claude, -1561, type designer.

W. Thomas Taylor (Firm), publisher.

Bird & Bull Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Autographs.

Shaw, Bernard.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

Genre:

Autographs.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.

Case bindings (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

62, [4] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : 2 facsimiles ; 29 cm

Manufacture:

North Hills, Pa. : Printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press.

Place of Publication:

Austin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1977.

Summary:

Text of flyleaf inscriptions written by Shaw in 8 books in his personal library; these books were sold at auction on July 25, 1949.

Contents:

William Shakespeare: The tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

William Shakespeare: Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies

Dante Alighieri: Tutte le opere

Sir Thomas Malory: The birth, life and acts of King Arthur (Le Morte Darthur)

Sir Edward Elgar: The Severn suite

T.E. Lawrence: A letter to his mother

T.E. Lawrence: Seven pillars of wisdom, a triumph

John Bunyan: The life and death of Mr. Badman.

Notes:

"350 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa."--Colophon.

"Printed in Garamond type on Andorra text paper; folding facsimiles of original Shaw manuscripts between pp. [14] and 15, [44] and 45."--Taylor.

Printed in black and red.

Erratum slip inserted.

"Binding: Orange cloth over boards; paer label on spine lettered verticall, BERNARD SHAW / FLYLEAVES / Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary; specially made paste paper for endpapers."--Taylor.

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.

Cited in:

Taylor, W.T. Twenty-one years of Bird & Bull, B7 (pages 83-84)

OCLC:

4077081