Epicurus, Leontion and Ternissa / by Walter Savage Landor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864, author.

Contributor:

Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931, book designer.

Hacon & Ricketts, bookseller, publisher.

Ballantyne Press, printer.

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

Standardized Title:

Imaginary conversations. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary conversations.

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:

xcix, [1] pages ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : Printed by the Ballantyne Press

Other Title:

Text within decorative frame, page iii: Leontin. Our situation for a garden ...

Title on label on upper board: Epicurus, Leontion & Ternissa

Place of Publication:

[London] : Sold by Messrs Hacon and Ricketts at the sign of the Dial, LII Warwick Street near Regent Street W, [1896?]

Summary:

A dialogue from the author's imaginary conversations.

Notes:

Title from half-title; bookseller and printer from colophon.

"The build of the book and its decoration being by Charles Ricketts. This edition is limited to two hundred and ten copies of which two hundred are for sale"--Colophon.

Page iii has decorative frame and initial printed in red and black; leaf-shaped ornament throughout the text; portion of colophon printed in red.

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 protective wrapper. Booksellers' sticker on inside front cover: F. W. Chaundy, Oxford.

Cited in:

Ricketts, C.S. Bibliography of the books issued by Hacon & Ricketts, page xix

OCLC:

3171751