Elizabethan sonnets / selected and arranged by Leonard Jay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jay, Leonard, book producer.

Central School of Arts and Crafts (Birmingham, England). Birmingham School of Printing, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sonnets, English.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

13, [1] pages ; 26 cm

8vo.

Place of Publication:

[Birmingham, Eng.] : Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts & Crafts, 1932.

Notes:

"Printed under the direction of Leonard Jay at the Birmingham School of Printing ... Type, which is 18-point Estienne ... set on the Linotype by students attending the classes ... Compositors' work by B. Alker and L. Holmes ... Decorations by W.F. Colley. Printed by students attending Letterpress Machine classes ... Finished in the year 1932"--Colophon (p. [14])

Sonnets written by Robert Greene, William Browne, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Sir Philip Sidney.

Text printed in black and vermilion.

Local Notes:

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:

Wallis, L.W. Leonard Jay, p. 69

OCLC:

3198326