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The house of endless doors / Mary Corse.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Ransom 10
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corse, Mary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Japan vellum (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Fairy tales.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], 62, [2] pages : 1 color illustration ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Will Ransom, 1922.
- Notes:
- Printer's device on title leaf and at colophon.
- "The house of endless doors is the fifth publication issued from the private press of Will Ransom: maker of books, 14 West Washington Street, Chicago, U.S.A. This first edition, with a hand-colored illustration by J. Edgar Miller, is limited to two hundred and twenty-five copies on Tovil hand-made paper and also five personal copies on Japanese vellum, not for sale. Composition, lettering, and presswork are by Will Ransom, assisted by Edmond A. Hunt; binding by Anthony Faifer. Printing finished December 6, 1922. [Blank for copy number]"--Colophon.
- "Demy 8vo, Garamond. 225 Tovil, boards ...; 5 J[apanese] V[ellum], not for sale."--Ransom.
- Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard; hand-colored initial.
- Deckled edges, untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 162 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 230 copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, 11
- OCLC:
- 4063934
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