Friar Jerome's beautiful book, / by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907, author.

Contributor:

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)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Specimens.

Vellum bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1896.

Large paper printings (Publishing)

Private press books (Printing)

Arnold (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[15] folded leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Large paper edition

Manufacture:

Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press

Place of Publication:

Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896.

Notes:

Colophon : "Two hundred and fifty copies of this large-paper edition of Friar Jerome's beautiful book with special title-page, were printed on Arnold hand-made paper."

Printed on one side of double leaves folded once in Japanese style.

Rubricated.

Publisher's red vellum binding, gilt.

"Copyright, 1896, by Houghton, Mifflin & Company"--title page verso.

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 XXXVII [37].

OCLC:

231332