The jargon of Master François Villon : clerk of Paris, A.D. MCCCCLII & being seven ballads from the Thieves' Argot of the XVth Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villon, François, 1431-1463, author.

Contributor:

Stabler, Jordan Herbert, 1885-1938, translator.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

H.O. Houghton & Company, electrotyper, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rogues and vagabonds--France.

Rogues and vagabonds.

France.

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:

42, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

[Cambridge, Mass.] : [Riverside Press]

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [Houghton Mifflin Company], [1918]

Notes:

Plate and first page of foreword within ornamental borders ; initials.

Text in English and French.

Colophon: This, the first English translation of the jargon by Jordan Herbert Stabler, B. A., printed for Houghton Mifflin Company at The Riverside Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, consists of three hundred and eighty-five copies ...

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 199.

OCLC:

3686795