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Wanted--a chaperon / by Paul Leicester Ford ; with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy ; decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Dodd, Mead 6
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902, author.
Contributor:
Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952, illustrator.
Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, illustrator, binding designer.
Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Upper class--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Upper class.
Household employees--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Household employees.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships.
Manners and customs--Fiction.
Manners and customs.
American fiction--Male authors--20th century.
American fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--1865-1950--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.).
American fiction--Male authors.
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Binders (Binding) -- Margaret Armstrong
novellas.
illustrated books.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Illustrated works.
Novellas.
Romance fiction.
Love stories.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1902.
Embossed cloth bindings.
Private press books (Printing)
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Marner(?), Eleanor P. (autograph, Christmas 1902) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[6], 109, [3] pages, [6] leaves of plates : color illustrations, frontispiece, plates ; 23 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Manufacture:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The University Press.
Place of Publication:
New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902.
Language Note:
Text in English.
Notes:
Illustrated title; title and text within floriated borders; copyright, edition, and publication statements from title verso; manufacture statement from colophon; frontispiece and plate guard sheets present.
Dust jacket, and bindings in green, white, or lavender cloth, signed by the designer: M.A. [i.e. Margaret Armstrong]. Gilt edges at head.
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.
Cited in:
BAL 6232
Gullans & Espey 96
OCLC:
988571

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