TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
"Ladd, Barbara" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:30:31 -0500
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (22 lines)
One of my colleagues picked up a very small volume at an old book fair in
Cincinnati (and for about $1.00) the following:

The title page reads as follows: Conversation As It Was By the Social
Fireside in The Time Of The Tudors from Ye Diary of Ye Cupbearer to her
Maisty
Queen Elizabeth. Imprinted by Ye Puritan Press At Ye Sign of Ye Jolly Virgin
1601.

It was published by The Byway Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1901-and 120 copies
were printed. And in 1916 a facsimile edition was published in Chicago.

There is no mention of Mark Twain anywhere in the volume, but it is
obviously Mark Twain's famous burlesque of Tudor conversation. It is printed
using a modernized Caxton black letter type and is on French handmade paper.

Does anyone know the history of this publication, or anything at all about
it?

Best,
Barbara Ladd

ATOM RSS1 RSS2