The harper & the king's horse : a tale / by Payne Erskine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erskine, Payne, 1854-1924, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Sarah K., illustrator.

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, 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):

Narrative poetry, American--20th century.

Narrative poetry, American.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Dust jackets (Binding)

Gilt 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:

46, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Harper and the king's horse

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Blue Sky Press [1905]

Notes:

Title in red and black, within ornamental border, on two facing pages.

"Here endeth The harper and the king's horse, a tale by Payne Erskine. The illustrations were drawn by Sarah K. Smith and the designs are by Thomas Wood Stevens. Of this edition there have been printed and published by the Blue Sky Press, in Chicago, Ill., five hundred copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper and twenty-five copies on Japan vellum, this being number [blank]"--Colophon.

All edges gilt.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is an unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 525 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.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 221, number 37

OCLC:

2566685