Meadow-grass : tales of New England life / by Alice Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Alice, 1857-1948, author.

Contributor:

Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, illustrator.

Copeland and Day, publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New England--Social life and customs--Fiction.

New England.

Genre:

Fiction.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1895.

Signed bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1895.

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], 315, [1] pages ; 18 cm

8vo.

Manufacture:

Cambridge, Mass. : University Press

Cambridge, Mass. : John Wilson and Son

Place of Publication:

Boston : Copeland and Day, 1896.

Summary:

A collection of thirteen short stories about New Hampshire neighborhoods and people, set in the fictional village of Tiverton, a farming community close to the sea.

Contents:

Number five

Farmer Eli's vacation

After all

Told in the poorhouse

Heman's ma

Heartsease

Mis' Wadleigh's guest

A righteous bargain

Joint owners in Spain

At Sudleigh fair

Bankrupt

Nancy Boyd's last sermon

Strollers in Tiverton.

Notes:

"University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A." --verso page 315.

Ninth thousand December 1896--title page verso.

Light yellowish-green (C135) cloth; meadow scene, publisher's device and title in darker green, pond in gilt, all within thick-thin ruled border, signed "Rhead", i.e. Louis J. Rhead; spine lettered in green; untrimmed.

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.

ISBN:

0512000530

9780512000538

OCLC:

13589823