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The lamentable comedy of Willow Wood. / By Rudyard Kipling.

LIBRA PR4854 .L25 1929
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LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Windsor Press 56
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC85 K6284 929l
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, author.
Contributor:
Johnson, James, 1897- printer.
Johnson, Cecil, 1900 January 19- printer.
Windsor Press, printer, publisher.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English drama--19th century.
English drama.
Genre:
Drama.
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:
[6], 27, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
San Francisco : Windsor Press, 1929.
Notes:
First (American) separate edition, unauthorized and limited.
"First published edition, only one hundred numbered copies ... Number ..." ---Colophon.
"This two-character play first appeared in London in the 'Fortnightly Review' for May 1890, and it had previously been collected by the author in 'The one volume Kipling' (1928), although the Windsor Press proprietors, The Brothers Johnson, in their note on p. [28] mistakenly declare their edition ... to be the 'first published edition'."--Cf. Richards.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy is no. 66.
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 77. In slipcase.
Cited in:
Richards, D.A. Kipling, A387
OCLC:
8901332

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