John Brown / Victor Hugo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, author.

Contributor:

Strachey, Lionel, 1864-1927, translator.

Rae, Frank B., illustrations.

Alwil Shop, publisher.

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

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Brown, John, 1800-1859.

Brown, John.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Van Gelder (Paper).

Japan vellum (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Rae, Frank B. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

[38] pages : frontispiece, facsimile ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Ridgewood, N.J.] : Alwil Shop, MCMII [1902].

Contents:

The English of Victor Hugo

Facsimile of letter from Victor Hugo to Paul Chenay concerning the drawing which is the frontispiece of this book

The original of Victor Hugo.

Notes:

"Of the matter contained herein, the French text, together with the reproduction of Victor Hugo's drawing and fac-simile of his letter to M. Chenay, were published in pamphlet form by M.E. Dentu and Mm. Dusacq et cie., Paris, 1861."--page [4]

Of this book there were printed one hundred & fifty copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper, and fifteen copies on Japan vellum, this being number 133."--page [5]

Here ends the book, John Brown from the French of Victor Hugo. The translation is by Lionel Strachey; the decorations and initial letters by Frank B. Rae, jr.; the whole being printed and sold by Alwil shop, Ridgewood, N.J., April, 1902.--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copies are number 55 (Misc 64); and number 1 (Misc 65 on Japan vellum, in box).

OCLC:

4380141