The maypole of Merrymount : from Twice-told tales / by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; with greetings for the year MDCCCCXLVII to the friends of The Merrymount Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.

Contributor:

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941, printer.

Merrymount Press, printer.

Monotype Corporation, type designer.

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

Standardized Title:

May-pole of Merry Mount

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--19th century.

Short stories, American.

Gift books.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Times Roman.

Keepsakes.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Merrymount Press 13) (Merrymount Press 14) (Merrymount Press 15))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Merrymount Press 13) (Merrymount Press 14) (Merrymount Press 15))

Smith, F. Morton (Frederick Morton), 1886-1947 (label) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Merrymount Press 14))

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 (label) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Merrymount Press 14))

Bianchi, John, 1874- (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Merrymount Press 14))

Physical Description:

vi, 29, [1] pages ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass., U.S.A. : Printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press at the sign of the maypole, 712 Beacon Street, [1947]

Notes:

Printer statement from colophon.

Printed in black and red. Printer's device in red at colophon.

"Type, Times Roman Monotype."--Bianchi.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Merrymount Press 13, 14 & 15) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Merrymount Press 14) has label ("F. Morton Smith, Esq., 50 State Street, Boston 9, Mass.") on front pastedown; label ("D.B. Updike The Merrymount Press 712 Beacon Street, Boston 15, Mass.") on front pastedown; manuscript inscription ("John Bianchi Esq Publisher") in blue ink on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Bianchi, D.B. "Bibliographical list: books printed at the press, 1934-1949." In Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work (1975 edition), 271-346, 993 (page 334)

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 7723

OCLC:

41834866