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Castle, knight & troubadour : in an apology and three tableaux / by Elia W. Peattie.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Blue Sky 27
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bernart, de Ventadorn, active 12th century--Fiction.
- Bernart.
- Provence (France)--History--Fiction.
- Provence (France).
- Bernart, de Ventadorn, active 12th century.
- France--Provence.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Japan vellum (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 65, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition]
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The Blue Sky Press, MCMIII [1903]
- Notes:
- "Here endeth 'Castle, knight and troubadour,' as written by Elia W. Peattie; the frontispiece was drawn by Harry Everett Townsend; and the whole made into this book and sold by the Blue Sky Press, at 4732 Kenwood Avenue, in Chicago. Of this first edition there were printed one hundred and seventy-five copies on paper and twenty-five copies on Japan vellum, this being number [blank]"--Colophon.
- "175 Van Gelder ... 25 J[apan] V[ellum]"--Ransom.
- Binding: half white ribbed cloth over blue boards; title stamped in gold on left board; gold-stamped spine title; blue endpapers; untrimmed edges.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 17 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 200 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 29
- OCLC:
- 4980719
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