Childe Harold's pilgrimage : a romaunt / by Lord Byron ; with illustrations by Sir Francis Cyril Rose, bart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, author.

Contributor:

Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979, illustrator.

Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988, book designer.

Minton, Balch & Company, publisher.

Ducros & Colas, printer.

Harrison of Paris, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

rare books.

Private press books (Printing)

Montgolfier Freres Vellum (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Didot.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

236, [4] pages : illustrations, plates ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

Paris : Ducros & Colas

Place of Publication:

Paris : Harrison of Paris, 1931.

New York : Minton, Balch and Company

Notes:

"This, the ninth publication of Harrison of Paris has been designed by Monroe Wheeler, and printed in the types of Didot in Paris, in October 1931, by Ducros et Colas."

725 copies printed. "Five copies on Imperial Japan Vellum (of which three are for America), each containing four original drawings, numbered A-E; thirty-five copies on Maillol hand-made paper (of which twenty are for America), nubmered I-XXXV; Six hundred and sixty copies on Montgolfier frères vellum, (of which four hundred and twenty-five are for America), numbered 1-660; and twenty-five copies not for sale and so marked. This is copy number..."

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 has number 619. In slipcase.

OCLC:

3518899