"1601" or conversation at the social fireside as it was in the time of the Tudors / by Mark Twain ; with notes on Mark Twain's "1601" and a check-list of various editions and reprints compiled by Irvin Haas.

Accession number: 
PML 251253
Author: 
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Published: 
Chicago : Black Cat Press, 1962.
Description: 
39 pages : illustration ; 69 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes: 

Illustrated frontispiece.
Title page printed in red and black; title page vignette printed in red.
"Original composition hand-set ... by Norman W. Forgue, who is also responsible for the design. Plates, offset printing and binding by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland. Frontispiece and title page decoration engraved on wood by Ben Albert Benson"--Colophon.
Housed in box labelled Black Cat Press / Norman W. Forgue.

Binding: 
Full red morocco with title surrounded by decorative border stamped in gilt; spine stamped in gilt; all edges gilded; red and gilt patterned endpapers.
Variant Title: 

Conversation at the social fireside as it was in the time of the Tudors

Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
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Department: 
Printed Books