The good-humoured ladies : a comedy / by Carlo Goldoni ; translated from the Italian by Richard Aldington ; to which is prefix'd an essay on Carlo Goldoni by Arthur Symons ; the whole embellish'd with cuts by Ethelbert White.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Goldoni, Carlo, 1707-1793, author.

Contributor:

• Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962, translator.
• Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945, writer of essay.
• White, Ethelbert, 1891-1972, illustrator, designer.
• Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976, publisher, printer.
• Minns, S. R., typographer.
• Smith, W., typographer.
• Beaumont Press, printer.
• Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

• English
• Italian

Subjects (All):

• Goldoni, Carlo, 1707-1793--Criticism and interpretation.
• Goldoni, Carlo, 1707-1793.

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Private press books (Printing)
• Printers' devices (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)
• Illustrated works.
• Plays.
• Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

• Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
• Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii, [3], 76, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Published by C.W. Beaumont at 75 Charing Cross Road, MDCCCCXXII [1922]

Notes:

• "This is the fifteenth 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 artists 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 and cut on wood by Ethelbert White the typography and binding arranged and the book produced by Cyril William Beaumont printed on his press at 75 Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster completed on the twentieth day of November MDCCCCXXII Pressman S.R. Minns Compositor W. Smith"--Colophon.
• Printer's device at colophon.
• Binding: quarter vellum over decorative paper boards or quarter cream buckram over decorative paper boards. See Jackson.

Local Notes:

• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 149 (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 bound in quarter cream 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, 15
• Jackson, B.T. The Beaumont Press 1917-1931, 15

OCLC:

6681138