The Quaker City Holy Land excursion : an unfinished play / by Mark Twain, 1867 ; with wood engravings by John DePol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.

Contributor:

DePol, John, 1913-2004, engraver.

Knoepfler, Donald W., editor.

Buttonmaker Press, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Twain, Mark.

American drama--19th century.

American drama.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Mohawk (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

DePol, John, 1913-2004 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[44] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Omaha : Buttonmaker Press, MCMLXXXVI [1986].

Notes:

Edited by Donald W. Knoepfler from the manuscript in the Lilly Library, Indiana University. The manuscript was printed in 1927 in an edition of 200 copies commissioned by M. Harzof, New York, but most copies were destroyed at his order before distribution. One copy is in the Lilly Library with Twain's manuscript.

Limited edition of 150 numbered copies, signed by the engraver.

Included at end is a facsimile of a letter from Twain to C.H. Webb, dated Nov. 25 [1867?] explaining why he was unable to complete the play.

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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy numbered 92. In protective wrapper.

OCLC:

17806970