The glass of time / by Charlotte Becker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becker, Charlotte, author.

Contributor:

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

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, publisher, printer.

Blue Sky Press, publisher, 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

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Presentation inscriptions (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.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Becker, Charlotte (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 13-44, [2] pages ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Blue Sky Press, 1901.

Notes:

"Here endeth The glass of time, as written by Charlotte Becker. Printed and published by Langworthy & Stevens at the Blue Sky Press, which is upstairs at the south-west corner of Woodlawn Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, Chicago, Illinois. Done in February, MCMI"--Colophon.

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

Printed in black and red.

Printer's device on title leaf.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 205 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 265 copies. See limitation statement.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript corrections to text in pencil and/or ink on pages 30, 32, 35 and 40.

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 manuscript inscription ("To Alice from her friend Charlotte who teaches her how 'early to bed, early to rise' improves the mind!") recording the gift of this volume from the author to "Alice" on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 220, number 14

OCLC:

5047988