Accession number
PML 188101-02
Published
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Authors contributing: Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, etc. Artists: Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, J.-E. Blanche, etc. Composers: Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.
"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"
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.
"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 no. 15
"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"
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.
"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 no. 15
Description
xxv, 154, [1] pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 33 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Illegible signature in ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Light brown boards backed in teal cloth, with pictorial decoration and text stamped in gilt.
Classification
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Department