The Blue sky.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

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

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, 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)

Standardized Title:

Blue sky (Chicago, Ill.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--Periodicals.

American literature.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Unopened edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Case bindings (Binding)

Pictorial bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Little magazines.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 45) (Blue Sky 46))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 45) (Blue Sky 46))

Squire, Andrew, 1850-1934 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 45))

Physical Description:

5 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm

Monthly

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 1899)-v. 5, no. 1 (April, 1902).

Manufacture:

[Chicago, Illinois] : Set into type and imprinted on The Blue Sky Press which is at 5430 Lexington Avenue In Chicago Illinois by Langworthy and Stevens.

Other Title:

Blue sky : a magazine

Continued By:

Rubric

Place of Publication:

[Chicago, Illinois] : [The Blue Sky Press], [1899-1902]

Notes:

Title from cover.

Some numbers have running title: Blue sky a magazine.

Printer statement from volume 1, number 1 (August 1899).

Printer's name varies; some numbers have: Langworthy, Stevens and Company.

"22 numbers in all were issued, from August 1899 to April 1902. It was then absorbed into The rubric, a similar periodical."--Ransom.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Blue Sky 45 & 46) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 45): volume 2 has illustrated bookplate ("EX. LIBRIS A. SQUIRE Foy pour Devoir") of Andrew Squire (1850-1934) on front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 45): volume 1 bound in quarter cloth over color-illustrated boards; reproduction of cover illustration of numbers 1-3 on left board; printer's device on right board; untrimmed edges.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 45): volume 2 bound in paper boards; title in red and black and volume number in black on left board; untrimmed edges; many leaves unopened at head edge..

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Blue Sky 46): edges untrimmed.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 221, number 38

OCLC:

8558602