Penelope's Irish experiences / by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923, author.

Contributor:

Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Social life and customs.

Ireland.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

American fiction -- Women authors.

Fiction.

Cloth bindings

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Text omissions (Printing)

States (Printing)

Press corrections (Printing)

Physical Description:

[2], vi, [2], 329 [or 327], [1] pages ; 18 cm.

Manufacture:

[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Place of Publication:

Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901.

Notes:

Sequel to "A cathedral courtship and Penelope's English experiences" and "Penelope's progress."

Printer from title page, preceding date. Colophon: "The Riverside Press Electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton & Co. Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A."

BAL describes 3 printings, the first comprising 3 "issues" (better described as states). In the first printing a passage was accidentally omitted (comprising, as corrected, page 325, line 17 to page 327, line 25); this abbreviated text ends on page 327, with the colophon on page [328]. In the second state the omission was corrected by canceling and replacing the last leaf with 3 leaves (a single leaf and a bifolium), the text now ending on page 329, with the colophon on page [330]; in the third state the text ends with a single 6-leaf gathering containing pages 321-329, colophon on page [330], and a final blank leaf. The entire text was reimposed for the second and third printings; in the third printing a number of isolated textual emendations were made in the electrotype plates.

Publisher's advertisement (books by Mrs. Wiggin and by Mrs. Wiggin and Miss Smith): preliminary page [2], on the verso of a single inserted leaf all states of the 1st printing, and of the first integral leaf of 2nd and 3rd printings.

Publisher's device on t.p.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth with an all-over design of shamrocks in dark green; spine and front cover lettered in gold, with gold cartouches.

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

Athenaeum copy: Stamped on t.p.: "Received May 8 1901, The Athenaeum."

Cited in:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 22625

Other Format:

Online version: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923. Penelope's Irish experiences.

OCLC:

1946414