The frown of victory : a song-story / by Thomas Wood Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, author, distributor.

Contributor:

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.), distributor, autographer.

Blue Sky 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)

Series:

Blue sky booklets ; v. 2, no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century.

American fiction.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 4) (Blue Sky 32))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 4) (Blue Sky 32))

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 4) (Blue Sky 32))

Physical Description:

[18] pages ; 19 cm

Distribution:

[Chicago] : Sold by Langworthy & Stevens.

Place of Publication:

[Chicago] : Imprinted at the Blue Sky Press, which is upstairs at the corner of Woodlawn Avenue & Fifty-fifth Street, in Chicago, Illinois, [1900]

Notes:

"This song-story was commissioned by The bachelor book, of Chicago, and first appeared in that magazine during July, 1900"--Page [3].

"Of this booklet there have bene printed and signed one hundred ninety-five copies, this being number [blank]"--Limitation statement.

"Here endeth the song-story which is called The frown of victory, as set down in prose and verse by Thomas Wood Stevens. This being the first number of the second volume of the Blue Sky booklets, imprinted at the Blue Sky Press, which is upstairs at the corner of Woodlawn Avenue & Fifty-fifth Street, in Chicago, Illinois. And sold by Langworthy & Stevens, at the same place."--Explicit.

Title page in black and green, with printer's device (Blue Sky Press); hand-colored initial at beginning of text.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Blue Sky 4 & 32) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 4) is number 132 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 195 copies. See limitation statement.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 32) is number 188 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 195 copies. See limitation statement.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 32) has laid in 2 photoreproductions of another title leaf of this work.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 32) in glassine dust jacket with spiderweb pattern (damaged).

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 219, number 10

OCLC:

16125181