Nimphidia, and The Mvses Elizivm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, author.

Contributor:

Gray, John, 1866-1934, editor.

Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931, publisher, printer, illustrator.

Hacon & Ricketts, publisher.

Ballantyne Press, printer.

Vale Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muses (Greek deities)--Poetry.

Muses (Greek deities).

Elysium--Poetry.

Elysium.

Mythology, Greek--Poetry.

Mythology, Greek.

Genre:

odes.

Odes.

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Vale.

Penn Provenance:

Kessler, Harry, Graf, 1868-1937 (stamp) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

cxxxvii, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

London : Printed at the Ballantyne Press

Other Title:

Nimphidia, and The Muses Elizium

Nimphidia & The Muses Elizium

Place of Publication:

London : Sold by Messrs. Hacon & Ricketts at the sign of the Dial, lii Warwick Street, Regent Street, mdcccxcvi [1896].

Notes:

Title and first page of each poem within ornamental border.

"Here ends this edition of Nymphidia & The muses elizium by Michael Drayton esquire, edited from the earliest editions by John Gray & decorated with woodcut frontispiece & border done by Charles Ricketts, under whose supervision the book has been printed ..."--Colophon

An edition of 210 copies printed in Vale type by the Ballantyne Press, for the Vale Press. See: Tomkinson.

Imprint from colophon; printing statement precedes publication statement, which is then followed by place and date of publication.

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 in slipcase.

Cited in:

Tomkinson, G.S. Select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland, Vale Press no. 6

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, Vale Press no. 6

Contains:

Mvses Elizivm.

Muses Elizium.

OCLC:

13401640