The Nyum-nyum : an anonymous poem / illustrated with woodcuts by Suzette Morton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morton, Suzette Preston, illustrator, book designer, autographer.

Benton, Morris Fuller, type designer.

Alderbrink Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonsense verses.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Unopened edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cloister Old Style.

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Morton, Suzette Preston (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Eccles, Mary Hyde Eccles, Viscountess, 1912-2003 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[20] leaves : color illustrations ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

[Chicago] : Printed ... at the Alderbrink Press, Chicago, in the month of May, 1935.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Privately printed, MCMXXXV [1935]

Notes:

"This edition, designed & illustrated with cuts on the wood by Suzette Preston Morton, consists of 75 signed & numbered copies printed in Cloister Old Style type on Casinensis Italian hand-made paper at the Alderbrink Press, Chicago, in the month of May, 1935. Number [blank]"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 14 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 75 signed and numbered copies. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript presentation inscription ("To M.M.C. -With love I inscribe this Morton primitive SP") from the illustrator to Mary Hyde Eccles on front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in decorative paper boards; printed paper spine label with title; olive green endpaper; deckled edges, untrimmed; leaves unopened at head edge.

OCLC:

3247244