Goblin market / by Christina Rossetti ; 1861.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894, author.

Contributor:

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

Van Gelder Zonen, papermaker.

Blue Sky Press, publisher.

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

Series:

Pageant series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goblins--Poetry.

Goblins.

Sisters--Poetry.

Sisters.

Genre:

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.) (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

42, [4] pages ; 14 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Blue Sky Press, 1905.

Notes:

"Of this edition of Goblin market there have been printed three hundred copies on Van Gelder hand made paper, and fifteen copies on Japan vellum, this being number [blank] The Blue Sky Press, Chicago, Illinois"--Colophon.

"300 Van Gelder, boards ... 15 J[apan] V[ellum] ... Pageant series III"--Ransom.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number "167 2 (Duplicate)" (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 315 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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Alfred Gist Langworthy laid in; illustrated bookplate with blank for the owner's name laid in.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 221, number 36

OCLC:

3647790