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The passing of the backhouse.

Accession number
PML 251364
Published
Evanston, Illinois : Press of Ward Schori, 1980.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Printed text reproduced from calligraphy.
A poem; also published under titles: The passing of the old back-house; The country privy.
The "Addendum" (p. [1]-[2], 1-26)--discusses authorship of the poem, including its attribution to James Whitcomb Riley, Robert Leonard Dodd, and others. Cf. BAL.
"Calligraphy & addendum by G. Harvey Petty. Sketch by Herschel C. Logan. Camera work by Andre Cygan. Binding by Hugo Grummich. Production by Ward Schori"--Colophon
Housed in box labelled Schori Press [Box 1].
Description
xi, 26 pages : illustration ; 53 x 71 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Chocolate brown leather stamped in gilt.
Classification
Department