The Etchingham letters / by Sir Frederick Pollock and Mrs. Fuller Maitland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollock, Frederick, 1845-1937, author.

Maitland, Ella Fuller, author.

Contributor:

Ball, Thomas Watson, 1863-1934, binding designer.

Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Social life and customs--Fiction.

England.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Epistolary fiction.

Fiction.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1890-1900.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Renshaw (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Renshaw, L. B. (autograph, Nov. 99) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 343, [1] pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899.

Summary:

A novel of polite society told in a series of conversational letters chiefly between Sir Richard Etchingham, a widower in Wessex (lately retired from Indian service), and his beloved sister Miss Elizabeth Etchingham of London.

Notes:

First English edition has authors in reverse order on title page.

Design of unsigned binding attributed to Thomas Watson Ball by book artist Richard Minsky.

Local Notes:

Publisher's moss green cloth binding stamped on cover and spine with sea green and cream Art Nouveau decoration.

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 business card of Vilain laid in.

Cited in:

Minsky, R. Book cover art of Thomas Watson Ball, page 53

OCLC:

4425656