The poetry of shells / by Josiah Keep ; foreword by Joshua L. Baily, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keep, Josiah, 1849-1911, author.

Contributor:

Mellen, Laura M., illustrator.

Eucalyptus Press, publisher.

Mills College, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shells.

Mollusks.

Shellfish.

shell (animal material).

Medical Subjects:

Shellfish.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.

Worthy Hand (Paper).

Arrow (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[4], 25, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[Oakland], Calif. : Eucalyptus Press, 1949.

Oakland, Calif. : Mills College

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

"Paper, read before the Berkeley club in 1899."

"The cuts were made some five or six decades ago from the original pen and ink drawings by Laura M. Mellen for the early editions of West coast shells."

"The manuscript copy of this paper, read before the Berkeley Club in 1899, came to light recently and the author's daughter had the pleasure of setting it in Centaur type and printing 255 copies on Worthy Hand and Arrow paper."

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.

OCLC:

6326763