The bashful man : and others / by Charles Pierce Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Charles Pierce, 1862-1947, author.

Contributor:

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

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, publisher.

Blue Sky Press, publisher.

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

Van Gelder Zonen, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--20th century.

American essays.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Essays.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Bookplates (Provenance)

Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15) (Blue Sky 21))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15) (Blue Sky 21))

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15) (Blue Sky 21))

Brannan, Robert H. (Robert Herman), 1901-1985 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15))

Burton, Charles Pierce, 1862-1947 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15))

Walker, Dudley (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15))

Physical Description:

[4], 13-121, [3] pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : The Blue Sky Press, [1902]

Notes:

"Here ends the book 'The bashful man and others,' as written by Charles Pierce Burton, and published by Langworthy & Stevens at The Blue Sky Press, 4732 Kenwood Avenue, Chicago. completed in October, 1902. Of this edition five hundred copies have been printed, this being number [blank]"--Colophon.

Title in red and black; title vignette (printer's device).

"500 Van Gelder, boards."--Ransom.

Binding: quarter green cloth over gray paper boards; title and floriate ornament in black on left board; printed spine label; gray endpapers; deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Blue Sky 15 & 21) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15) is number 131 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by publisher A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 500 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15) has illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS ROBERT H. BRANNAN") of Robert Herman Brannan (1901-1985) on front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 15) has on blank leaf following front free endpaper dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("To Mr. Dudley Walker, with the copmliments of The Author, Charles Pierce Burton. December 7, 1903.") recording the gift of this volume by the author to Dudley Walker on 7 December 1903.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 21) is number 1 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by publisher A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 500 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 21) has illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS CG No. [blank]") of an unidentified former owner on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 220, number 23

OCLC:

4258880