Arcadian ballads / by James Reeves ; with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reeves, James, author.

Contributor:

Ardizzone, Edward, 1900-1979, illustrator.

Wieck, Roger S., associated name, former owner.

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- associated name, former owner.

Whittington Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.

Ovid.

Metamorphoses (Ovid).

Genre:

rare books.

poetry.

Poetry.

fine press books.

letterpress printing.

Physical Description:

ix, [3], 48, [2] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Andoversford, Gloucestershire : Whittington Press, 1977

Notes:

"These poems are based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, from which they have been freely adapted"--Page [vii].

"200 copies hand-set in 14-point Caslon and printed at Whittington Court by John and Rosalind Randle, Tim Jollands and Miriam Macgregor, on Arches paper. The illustrations were printed by lithography at the Senecio Press. 200 cloth copies, and 50 leather copies with endpapers marbled by Solveig Stone, were bound by Weatherby Woolnough"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Whittington 2: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck in 2019. Edition number 181 of 200. Author and illustrator ink autographs on colophon page. In slipcase.

Related Work:

Adaptation of: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses http://viaf.org/viaf/3433152140031011100007

OCLC:

8702052