The dome : an illustrated magazine and review of literature, music, architecture and the graphic arts.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Unicorn Press (London, England), publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Dome (London, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Periodicals.

Arts.

Literature--Periodicals.

Literature.

Music--Periodicals.

Music.

Fine books--England--London--Specimens.

Fine books.

Illustrated books--England--London--History--19th century--Specimens.

Illustrated books.

England--Periodicals.

England.

1897.

1899.

1900.

England--London.

Local Subjects:

1897.

1899.

1900.

Genre:

History

Periodicals.

Specimens.

Little magazines.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

12 volumes : illustrations (some color, wood-engravings and lithographs), portraits (some color), music ; 22-23 cm

No. 1 ([Mar.] 1897)-no. 5 (May 1898); n.s. v. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1898)-v. 7, no. 19/21 (May/July 1900).

Place of Publication:

London : Unicorn Press, [1897-1900]

Summary:

"Features art and literature by leading figures of the day including Laurence Housman, W.B. Yeats, Arthur Symons, Laurence Binyon, C.J. Holmes, Gordon Craig, W.T. Horton, Bernard Sleigh, Maurice Maeterlinck, Roger Fry and many others"--Bookseller's catalogue.

Contents:

The song of Mongan : a poem / by W.B. Yeats, n.s., v. 1., no. 1, p. 36

A symbolic artist and the coming of symbolic art : a note / by W.B. Yeats. Aodh pleads with the elemental powers : a poem / by W.B. Yeats, n.s., v. 1, no. 3, pp. 233-238.

Notes:

Subtitle varies. Nos. 1-4: The dome : a quarterly containing examples of all the arts ; no. 5: Number five of the dome : a quarterly published ... ; n.s.: The dome : an illustrated magazine and review of literature, music, architecture and the graphic arts.

On cover of new series: Literature -- Music -- Architecture -- The graphic arts.

Printer's device in most issues of v. 1-5 and in the colophon of n.s. v. 5.

Vol. 4, n.s. contains index to v. 1-4.

Binding: v. 1-3 green paper boards lettered in green; v. 4 brown paper boards, cream paper spine label lettered in brown; v. 5 brown paper boards with yellow panel on front cover lettered in brown; n.s. v. 1-7 blue cloth lettered in gilt.

No number issued for May 1899.

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 imperfect. Have only Number 3, 1897.In protective wrapper.

Cited in:

Krishnamurti, G. Eighteen-nineties, entry 805

ISSN:

2043-2062

OCLC:

173348227