Accession number
PML 187654
Published
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
"The book is sold for the benefit of the American hostels for refugees (with the Foyer Franco-Belge)--and of the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee"
Authors contributing: Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, etc. Artists: Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, J.-E. Blanche, etc. Composers: Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.
"Of this book, in addition to the regular edition, there have been printed and numbered one hundred and seventy-five copies de luxe, of larger format. Numbers 1-50 on French hand-made paper, containing four facsimiles of manuscripts and a second set of illustrations in portfolio. Numbers 51-175 on Van Gelder paper"--Colophon.
Library's copy is unnumbered.
Each plate accompanied by letterpress cover sheet and tissue guard.
Illustrated title page and two other decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka.
Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
"D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, U.S.A."--Title page verso.
Authors contributing: Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, etc. Artists: Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, J.-E. Blanche, etc. Composers: Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.
"Of this book, in addition to the regular edition, there have been printed and numbered one hundred and seventy-five copies de luxe, of larger format. Numbers 1-50 on French hand-made paper, containing four facsimiles of manuscripts and a second set of illustrations in portfolio. Numbers 51-175 on Van Gelder paper"--Colophon.
Library's copy is unnumbered.
Each plate accompanied by letterpress cover sheet and tissue guard.
Illustrated title page and two other decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka.
Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
"D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, U.S.A."--Title page verso.
Description
xxv, [1], 154, [1] pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 29 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Grey boards stamped in black and light blue, backed in red cloth, lacking the brown paper slipcase as issued.
Classification
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