The parchment in the hollow hilt / Thomas Wood Stevens & Alden Charles Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, author.

Noble, Alden Charles, 1880-1942, author.

Contributor:

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)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century.

Blue Sky Press.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Dust jackets (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Romances.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[30] pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Blue Sky Press, [1904]

Notes:

"Here endeth the tale of The parchment in the hollow hilt, as written by Thomas Wood Stevens and Alden Charles Noble, and made into this book at the Blue Sky Press, 4732 Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Of this edition there have been printed two hundred and twenty-five copies on Italian hand-made paper, and twenty-five copies on Japan vellum, this being number [blank]"--Colophon.

Untrimmed edges.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 2 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 250 copies. See colophon.

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 in clear dust jacket.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 221, number 34

OCLC:

3889121