Accession number
PML 195974
Creator
Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985.
Published
New York : Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Robert Dance, 2013.
Notes
A salesman's sample of the first American novel in woodcuts, with variant text and typography on the title page, lacking the t.p. vignette and dedication leaf, with 1 of 5 chapter heading vignettes and 17 of Ward's 139 wood engravings (the remaining leaves blank).
Illustrations: pictorial chapter title for "I: The Brush" and first 15 plates + plate 63 and 65 from "II: The Mistress".
"Introduction by a Well-known Author"--Printed on t.p.
"Printed by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass., and bound by the J. F. Tapley Co."--T.p. verso.
Some of the blank leaves are unopened.
Illustrations: pictorial chapter title for "I: The Brush" and first 15 plates + plate 63 and 65 from "II: The Mistress".
"Introduction by a Well-known Author"--Printed on t.p.
"Printed by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass., and bound by the J. F. Tapley Co."--T.p. verso.
Some of the blank leaves are unopened.
Description
[3] p., 17 leaves of plates, 105 blank leaves : ill. ; 21 cm
Binding
Quarter black cloth with pictorial paper-covered sides after Ward's design, with title, author, and imprint stamped in gold on spine.
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