The sonnets of Shakespeare / now newly imprinted from the first edition of 1609, by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

O'Kane, H. M. (Helen Marguerite), 1879- designer.

Conwell, Clarke, printer, bookseller.

Elston Press, printer, bookseller.

L.L. Brown Paper Co., papermaker.

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

Zaehnsdorf (Firm), binder.

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

Standardized Title:

Sonnets. Elston. 1901

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--17th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Watermarks (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Elston Roman.

Case bindings (Binding)

Gilt edges (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Leather bindings (Binding)

Signed bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Provenance)

Autographs (Provenance)

Insertions (Provenance)

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Zaehnsdorf (Firm) (stamp) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], 126, [1], 127-154, [3] pages ; 25 cm

Distribution:

New Rochelle, New York : Sold by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press, Pelham Road.

Place of Publication:

[New Rochelle, New York] : Newly imprinted by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press ..., finished this twelfth day of December, MDCCCCI [1901]

Notes:

"Here end the sonnets of Shakespeare, newly imprinted by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press from the first edition of 1609. With initial letters designed by H.M. O'Kane. Sold by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press, Pelham Road, New Rochelle, New York. Two hundred and ten copies have been printed: finished this twelfth day of December, MDCCCCI."--Colophon.

"210 copies printed in red and black on American handmade paper watermarked 'Elston.' Bound in linen spine and blue paper boards, stamped in black on front. Spine stamped in black, with title at head and 'Elston / MDCCCCI' at foot ... Elston Roman type. This is the first book printed in the new Roman type especially cast for the Press in England."--Johnson.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy printed in black only.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has partially illegible dated 20th-century autograph ("[...]. W. Thornton. 1931.") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in visiting card of Sir Henry Thornton (1871-1933) with manuscript note ("Returned with thanks").

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound by Zaehnsdorf (with its stamp on tail turn-in of inside left board) in full gold-tooled leather; left board has central gold-tooled armorial vignette (within a thick decorative rhomboid border, an open book with initials "ET" on left page and "AM" on right page, flanked by a pair of leeks on either side and by a thistle on the left and a bee on the right; above, a crest of a lion rampant holding in its dexter paw a cross pattée, with motto MARTE ET ARTE; beneath, a crest of a lion's head erased crowned with an antique crown, with motto ARD CHOILLE); title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; untrimmed fore- and tail edges; gilt tops.

Cited in:

Johnson, H.H. Notes on the history of the Elston Press, 7 (page 100)

OCLC:

3356873