The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde ; with woodblocks by Helen Siegl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, author.

Contributor:

Siegl, Helen, wood engraver.

Van Vliet, Claire, printer.

Janus Press, publisher.

Cypher Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Private press books--Specimens.

Private press books.

Private presses.

Vermont.

Genre:

Specimens

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Times New Roman.

Hosho Special (Paper).

Fabriano (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Siegl, Helen (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[18] pages (on double leaves) : illustrations ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

Philadelphia : Cypher Press

Place of Publication:

West Burke, Vt., Janus Press [1967]

Notes:

"This edition has been set in twelve point Times New Roman and printed in Hosho Special at the Cypher Press, Philadelphia by Claire Van Vliet in June 1967. It is bound by hand with Fabriano paper. The blocks are all printed from the originals cut by the artist. The edition is limited to two hundred, plus twenty copies hors commerce." -- Colophon.

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 105.

OCLC:

1326171737