Julia Domna, a play / by Michael Field.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Michael, author.

Contributor:

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

Ballantyne Press, printer.

Hacon & Ricketts, publisher.

John Lane Company, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Julia Domna, Empress, consort of Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, -217--Drama.

Julia Domna.

Empresses--Rome--Drama.

Empresses.

Aestheticism (Literature).

Rome--History--Severans, 193-235--Drama.

Rome.

Julia Domna, Empress, consort of Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, -217.

Genre:

Drama.

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:

liii, [1] pages ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

London : Ballantyne Press

Place of Publication:

London : Hacon & Ricketts, mdcccciii [1903].

New York : John Lane

Notes:

"The edition consists of two hundred and forty copies."--Colophon.

Opening lines of play within ornamental woodcut border.

Bound in tan and deep green patterned paper over boards; gray-green paper shelfback; printed paper label on spine.

"Here ends Julia Domna, a play by Michael Field. The decorations are designed and cut on the wood by Charles Ricketts, under whose supervision the book has been printed at the Ballantyne Press."--Colophon.

First three pages of text in red and black, following pages are printed in black on handmade paper.

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 has protective wrapper. Booksellers sticker on first leaf: Dennen's Bookshop. Detroit Michigan.

OCLC:

32722993