Scott who was nine : a tale of the joyous universe / by Alden Charles Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noble, Alden Charles, 1880-1942, author.

Contributor:

Townsend, Harry Everett, designer.

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

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, 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):

Boys--Fiction.

Boys.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Dust jackets (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Short stories.

Autographs (Provenance)

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 20) (Blue Sky 39))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 20) (Blue Sky 39))

Beebe, Katherine (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 20))

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 39))

Physical Description:

21, [3] pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Blue Sky Press, MCMI [1901]

Notes:

"Of this book there have been printed two hundred copies on Ruisdael handmade paper, and fifteen copies on Imperial Japan Vellum; this being number [blank]"--Limitation statement.

"Here endeth the story called Scott, who was nine, as set forth by Alden Charles Noble. Printed and made into this book at the Blue Sky Press, which is at the southwest corner of Woodlawn Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, in Chicago, by Langworthy & Stevens; and sold by them at the same place. Done in February, MCMI."--Colophon.

"Foreword in rhyme by Stevens. Designs by Harry Everett Townsend ... 200 Ruisdael ... 15 J[apan] V[ellum], illumined ... Booklet series II-2."--Ransom.

Title in black and red.

Printer's device on title leaf.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Blue Sky 20 & 39) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 20) is number 20 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 215 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 20) has illustrated bookplate ("KATHERINE:BEEBE HER:BOOK"), possibly of Illinois early childhood educator Katherine (sometimes Catherine) Eddowes Beebe (1860-1944), on front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 39) is number 12 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 215 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 39) has hand-colored initial.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 39) in clear dust jacket.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 220, number 13

OCLC:

3827464