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Pelagea & other poems / by A.E. Coppard.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Golden Cockerel 12
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878-1957, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century.
- English poetry.
- Fine books--England--Berkshire--Specimens.
- Fine books.
- England--Berkshire.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon Old Face.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Poems.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], 44, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Pelagea and other poems
- Place of Publication:
- [Waltham St. Lawrence] : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVI [1926]
- Contents:
- Night piece
- Stay, o stay
- Winter field
- The well
- The tinker
- Curfew
- Nocturne : new moon
- The unfortunate miller
- Pelagea
- To one unknown and gone
- The invisible rain
- The apostate
- Quiet
- Autumn song
- Christmas apples
- April fool
- The threshold
- The little tempest
- Betty Perrin
- Mendacity
- The sluggard
- Flesh and blood
- Narcissus
- Epitaph.
- Notes:
- "This book was printed and illustrated by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire, and completed on the 15th day of September, 1926. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limted to 425 copies, of which this is number [blank]"--Colophon
- Title in red and black; printer's device on page [45].
- "Engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings ... Caslon O.F. type ... 425 copies on English hand-made paper. 1/4 bound in buckram, batik sides."--Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press.
- Deckled edges, untrimmed. Brief title and author's name stamped in gold on spine.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 383 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 425 copies. See colophon.
- 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:
- Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 43
- OCLC:
- 1374026
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