The Antigone of Sophocles / translated by John Jay Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sophocles, author.

Contributor:

Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933, translator.

Loring, Augustus, papermaker.

Brown, Frank Chouteau, illustrator.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

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

Standardized Title:

Antigone. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Antigone (Mythological character)--Drama.

Antigone.

Antigone (Mythological character).

Genre:

Drama.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Montaigne.

Rives (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[6]. 70, [4] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge, Mass. : The Riverside Press

Place of Publication:

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930.

Notes:

Head and tail pieces. Title page printed in green and black.

"Five hundred and fifty numbered copies of this book, of which five hundred are for sale, were printed from sixteen-point Montaigne type on Rives handmade paper, at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts ... The paper used in the binding was made expressly for the book by Mrs. Augustus Loring, the decorations are by Frank Chauteau Brown ..."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 18. In slipcase & dust wrapper.

OCLC:

331583