The metamorphosis of Pigmalions image / by John Marston ; with engravings by Rene Ben Sussan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marston, John, 1575?-1634, author.

Contributor:

Ben Sussan, René, illustrator, engraver.

Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, printer.

Young, F. (Frank), typographer.

Gibbs, A. H. (A. Henry), typographer.

Cooper, A. C. (Albert C.), printer.

Golden Cockerel Press, printer.

H.W. Caslon & Co., type designer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pygmalion (Mythological character)--Poetry.

Pygmalion.

Pygmalion (Mythological character).

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Unopened edges (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], 17, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[Waltham St. Lawrence] : Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVI [1926]

Notes:

"This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, in Berkshire, & completed on the 6th day of November 1926. Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The text is taken from the edition of 1598, printed for Edmond Matts 'to be sold at the signe of the hand and plough in Fleetstreete.' Two misprints, beatious for beauteous, verse 2, line 4, and Cyrus for Cyprus in the penultimate line of the poem have been corrected, and contractions have been expanded. 325 copies have been printed, of which this is number [blank]"--Colophon.

Title in black and yellow. Printer's device on page [19].

"Caslon O.F. type ... 325 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 surname stamped in gold on spine.

Poem.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 206 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 325 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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: preliminary leaves unopened at head edge.

Cited in:

Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 46

OCLC:

38717838