PB 225-2003: PB 225-2003

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Maker(s)

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Contributor: Chamson, André
Illustrator: Duvoisin, Roger
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Writer: Marks, Saul
Designer: Marks, Saul
Designer: Marks, Lillian
Printer: Plantin Press

Entities

Travels with a donkey

Description

By Robert Louis Stevenson ; with a prefatory letter from the author, an introduction by André Chamson and illustrations by Roger Duvoisin.

With hand written letter tipped in on blank page following colophon: Saul Marks to John Dreyfus 9th Sept. 1965.

Xiv, [8], 152 p ; 26 cm

Place(s) associated

New York
Los Angeles

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1957

Note

Of this edition ... fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles. The illustrations were drawn as lithographs, on sheets of acetate, by Roger Duvoisin and printed at The Plantin Press; and the colors were applied by hand, through stencils, in the studio of Walter Fischer in new York..."--Colophon. Museum has copy number "J.D." signed by the illustrator. Bound in brown-flecked aqua basket-weave linen (monk's cloth binding) decorated with paper labels. Lacks slipcase.