Pervigilium Veneris / a poeta latino incognito ; in metro eodem anglice reddidit Elizabetha Hickman du Bois, PH. D. ; delineamenta a Dela P. Mussey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Du Bois, Elizabeth Hickman, 1870- translator.

Mussey, Dela P., illustrator.

Elm Tree Press, publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Pervigilium Veneris. English & Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Venus (Roman deity)--Poetry.

Venus.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Du Bois, Elizabeth Hickman, 1870- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

28, [4] pages ; 29 cm

8vo.

Other Title:

Title on additional title page : Vigil of Venus

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, Verdemontani = Woodstock, Vermont : typis et sumptibus preli Ulmei = Elm Tree Press, MCMXI [1911].

Language Note:

Text in Latin and translation in English.

Notes:

Title within red line border; added title page in English reads: The vigil of Venus, author unknown, translated into English in the original metre by Elizabeth Hickman du Bois, PH. D., drawings by Dela P. Mussey.

Latin text rubricated within red line border, with decorated initials and ornaments in color.

"Of this book one hundred and twenty-five copies only have been printed from type. Eighty-six of these are offered for sale."

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 is number 76.

OCLC:

3579584