Prelude to man / Chard Powers Smith ; published with decorations by Valenti Angelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Chard Powers, 1894-1977, author, autographer.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, designer.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Walpole Printing Office, printer.

D. Stempel AG Typefoundry, type designer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Origin--Poetry.

Human beings.

Creation--Poetry.

Creation.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.

Case bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Subscription lists.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Smith, Chard Powers, 1894-1977 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

McAskill, James E., Mrs. (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[14] pages, 152, [2] columns, [3] pages ; 42 cm

Manufacture:

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Walpole Printing Office.

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon [N.Y.] : The Peter Pauper Press, MCMXXXVI [1936].

Notes:

"This edition of Prelude to man, set in Janson type, and printed on specially-made paper, consists of three hundred seventy-five copies for sale, of which this is number [blank]"--Colophon.

Title and text in black and red; text printed primarily in double columns.

"List of subscribers": Preliminary pages [7]-[9].

"Beige linen with titles blocked in gilt and red on upper cover and spine ... Signed on the first half-title by the author."--Donnelly.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 275 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 375 copies. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy inscribed by the author to Mrs. James E. McAskill (possibly Edith Hannah McAskill, née Stenton, 1887-1976, wife of James Ernest McAskill, 1888-1956) on half-title leaf.

Cited in:

Donnelly, S. Peter Pauper Press of Peter and Edna Beilenson, 1928-1979, 426 (page 118)

OCLC:

10826699