My little dachshund : a doggerel and madrigal / by an old Elizabethan composer of the XXth century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941, author.

Contributor:

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991, illustrator.

Koch, Paul, 1906-1945, type designer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dachshunds--Verse.

Dachshunds.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[10] pages : illustrations, music ; 14 x 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Press of the Woolly Whale], 1939.

Notes:

Device of the press on title page.

Printed in red and black.

"This trickle of doggerel and the score as well are the work of one of America's foremost poets ... The illustrations ... are the contributions of Warren A. Chappell, while the score, hand set in Frankfurt-am-Main, is the first use in an American publication of this music type, designed by Paul Koch. Now first printed January 30th, 1939, for private distribution by the compsoer and the printer"--Colophon.

The copyright is by Melbert B. Cary, Jr.

Pages are of varying size.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

80492855