Wanted-- a chaperon / by Paul Leicester Ford ; with six illustrations in colors by Howard Chandler Christy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902, author.

Contributor:

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.

Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952, illustrator.

A.L. Burt Company, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

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:

[4], 175, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : A.L. Burt, [1911?]

Notes:

Text within green floral borders; branch vignette on title page signed "C."

Paged continuously; 2nd work, Love finds the way (pages [111]-175), has half-title only.

Date of publication from United States catalogue, 1912.

Each work has separate Dodd, Mead & Co. copyright page; 1st work ©1902, 2nd work ©1904.

Greenish gray (C155)--calico grain cloth; overall blue-green and pale green floral pattern, titled in gilt, signed "MA", i.e. Margaret Armstrong; motif repeated on spine.

Not in Gullans & Espey's Margaret Armstrong and American trade bindings.

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 has only 4 illustrations by Christy.

Contains:

Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902. Love finds the way.

OCLC:

27845997