After Berneval : letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, correspondent.

Contributor:

Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918, correspondent.

Schwabe, Randolph, 1885-1948, designer.

Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976, publisher, printer, typographer.

Minns, S. R., typographer.

Smith, W., typographer.

Beaumont Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Correspondence.

Wilde, Oscar.

Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918--Correspondence.

Ross, Robert Baldwin.

Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918.

Correspondence (Wilde, Oscar).

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Case bindings (Binding)

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Correspondence.

Illustrated works.

Autographs (Provenance)

Bookplates (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Cortés, Noël J. (Noël Jesús), 1907-1975 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

65, [1] pages : illustration, facsimile ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross

Place of Publication:

[Westminster] : [Beaumont Press], [1922]

Notes:

"This is the fourteenth book issued by the Beaumont Press 75 copies (five of which are not for sale) have been printed on Japanese vellum signed by publisher and artist and numbered 1 to 75 and 400 copies (ten of which are not for sale) on hand-made paper numbered 76 to 475. This is no. [blank]"--Limitation statement.

"The cover and decorations designed by Randolph Schwabe the typography and binding arranged by Cyril William Beaumont printed on his press at 75 Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster completed on the twentieth day of February MDCCCCXXII Pressman S.R. Minns Compositors C.W. Beaumont & W. Smith"--Colophon.

Title in brown; title vignette in brown, yellow, blue and green.

Printer's device at colophon.

Binding: quarter vellum over decorative paper boards or quarter fawn buckram over decorative paper boards.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 266 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 400 copies on hand-made paper numbered 76 to 475. See limitation statement.

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 armorial bookplate ("EX LIBRIS DR. NOËL J. CORTÉS") on verso of front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in quarter fawn buckram over decorative paper boards; title and author's name stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges, untrimmed; illustrated endpapers.

Cited in:

Beaumont, C.W. The first score, 14

Jackson, B.T. The Beaumont Press 1917-1931, 14

OCLC:

2536187