Spoil of the north wind.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Edward Martin, compiler.

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.), printer, publisher.

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, printer, publisher.

Rae, Frank B., Jr., -1937, designer.

Blue Sky Press, printer, publisher.

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):

Omar Khayyam.

Omar Khayyam--Poetry.

Omar Khayyam--Parodies, imitations, etc.

Genre:

Parodies, imitations, etc.

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Dust jackets (Binding)

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 12) (Blue Sky 26))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 12) (Blue Sky 26))

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 12))

Physical Description:

91, [3] pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Blue Sky Press, [1901]

Notes:

A collection of verses to Omar Khayyam.

Compiled by Edward Martin Moore; preface signed E.M.M.

Date of publication from colophon.

"Of this book there have been six hundred and twenty-five copies printed: twenty-five on Imperial Japan vellum; one hundred on Shandon paper for illumination; and five hundred on Shandon paper, not illumined. This being number [blank]"--Limitation statement.

"Here is an end of Spoil of the North Wind, being certain fugitive verse gathered together and made into a book by Edward Martin Moore. The cover, title page and initials were designed for this book by Frank B. Rae, Jr. Printed and published by Langworthy & Stevens at the Blue Sky Press, which is Upstairs at Woodlawn Avenue and Fifty-fifth street in Chicago. MCMI."--Colophon

Printer's device on title leaf.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Blue Sky 12 & 26) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 12) is number 2 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 625 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 12) is an illuminated copy on Shandon paper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 12) in clear dust jacket.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 26) is number 536 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 625 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 26) is a copy on Shandon paper, not illuminated.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 26) in clear dust jacket.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 219, number 12

OCLC:

5948269