L'allegro & Il penseroso / John Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.

Contributor:

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, writer of preface, printer.

Townsend, Harry Everett, illustrator.

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

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):

English poetry--17th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Dust jackets (Binding)

Printed paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 22) (Blue Sky 25))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 22) (Blue Sky 25))

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 22) (Blue Sky 25))

Physical Description:

41, [3] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Blue Sky Press, [1902]

Notes:

"Here endeth the book, L'allegro and Il penseroso, as written by John Milton. For this edition the note was written by Thomas Wood Stevens; two illustrations were drawn by Harry Everett Townsend; and the whole made into this book by Langworthy & Stevens at the Blue Sky Press, 4732 Kenwood Avenue, Chicago. One hundred copies have been printed and the type distributed, during the month of September, MCMII; this being number [blank]"--Colophon.

Printed in red and black.

Printer's device on title leaf.

"100 J[apan] V[ellum]"--Ransom.

Printed endpapers; untrimmed edges.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Blue Sky 22 & 25) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 22) is number 39 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 100 copies. See colophon and Ransom.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 22) bound in full parchment with slits for 2 fore-edge ties (wanting).

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 25) is number 96 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 100 copies. See colophon and Ransom.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 25) has manuscript inscription ("Compliments of AG Langworthy Sept 10/05.") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 25) has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 25) in clear dust jacket.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 220, number 21

Contains:

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Allegro.

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Penseroso.

OCLC:

1335770198