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The village shield : a story of Mexico / by Ruth Gaines and Georgia Willis Read.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 6860
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaines, Ruth, 1877-1952, author.
- Read, Georgia Willis, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexico--Fiction.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Havre, Harold J. (Harold Jean) (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- White House (San Francisco, Calif.) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, [4], 264, [4] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : E.P. Dutton & Company publishers, [1917]
- Notes:
- "The full-page illustrations for this book have been taken from three famous books of travel ... Six months residence and travels in Mexico by W. Bullock, London, 1824; Mitla, travels in Mexico and Guatemala, by G.F. von Tempsky, London, 1858; and Mexico, landscapes and popular sketches, by C. Sartorius, London, 1859. The two former authors made their own sketches; the latter ... those of ... Moritz Rugendas"--Preface.
- Colored frontispiece and colored plates facing pages 28, 44 and 188. Black and white plates facing pages 21, 108, 136, 180, 194, 201, 241 and 252. Vignettes throughout.
- Publisher's advertisement on preliminary page [ii].
- Includes notes on pages 257-264.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy imperfect: plate facing page 188 wanting.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has manuscript presentation inscription ("With best wishes,- From, Harold J. Havre") of either Harold Jean Havre (1899-1968) or his son of the same name (1924-1983) on front free endpaper; bookseller's label ("THE WHITE HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO BOOKS") on back pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 3825930
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