Author: Stone, Herbert S. and Hannibal Ingalls Kimball
Title: The Chap-Book, Vol. V. No. 2
Description: Chicago, IL, H.S. Stone & Company, 1896. Pamphlet. Octavo, 7 3/4" x 4 3/4." pp. viii, 49-96, ix-xvi, 1 tipped-in plate in green. Paper wrappers, nearly detached. Wrapper torn along spine with only 1 1/2" intact at top. Black woodblock print to front cover with red lettering, small black smudge to top. Red and black Sears advertisement to rear cover. Excepting wrappers, stitching very sound. Nice laid paper with black and red ink, custom printers' devices, and illustrations by various artists throughout. Pages very bright and clean. The Chap-Book is the quintessential example of "Little Magazines", a genre of publishing that celebrates literary and artistic talent through fine-press printing. The genre emerged out of the arts and crafts movement of the Fin de Siecle as a protest to industrialized media production. The Chap-Book was a periodical published by H.S. Stone & Company, founded by Harvard graduates Melville Stone and Hannibal Ingalls Kimball in 1893. This issue features work by some of the foremost authors and artists of their generation, including W.B. Yeats, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and H.H. Bennett (Wikipedia) (Schlereth) (Pinkerton & Hudson). "This publishing firm was established in 1893 by Herbert S.Stone, son of Chicago Daily News founder Melville E.Stone, and fellow Harvard University undergraduate Hannibal Ingalls Kimball. The company was short-lived but prestigious, publishing fine books in the tradition of William Morris and his Kelmscott Press. The chief editor was Lucy Monroe, sister of Poetry founder Harriet Monroe. In 1894, the firm launched THE CHAP-BOOK, a literary magazine influenced by the English Arts and Crafts Movement. It also began publication of the periodical "House Beautiful" Producing editions of Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, and others, the company turned to local authors as well, presenting Hamlin Garland's "Crumbling Idols" in 1894 and "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly" in 1895; George Barr McCutcheon's "Graustark" and "Brewster's Millions" also appeared under its imprint. The firm closed in 1897; its successor, Herbert S. Stone and Company, continued issuing THE CHAP-BOOK for another year, presenting the serial publication of Henry James's "What Maisie Knew". Herbert Stone died in the sinkiing of the Lusitania in 1915. Good Only .
Keywords: Fin-de-Siecle, Chicago Literary Renaissance, Fine Press Printing, Literary Publications, Small Press, Early Literary Journals, William Butler Yeats
Title: The Chap-Book, Vol. V. No. 2
Description: Chicago, IL, H.S. Stone & Company, 1896. Pamphlet. Octavo, 7 3/4" x 4 3/4." pp. viii, 49-96, ix-xvi, 1 tipped-in plate in green. Paper wrappers, nearly detached. Wrapper torn along spine with only 1 1/2" intact at top. Black woodblock print to front cover with red lettering, small black smudge to top. Red and black Sears advertisement to rear cover. Excepting wrappers, stitching very sound. Nice laid paper with black and red ink, custom printers' devices, and illustrations by various artists throughout. Pages very bright and clean. The Chap-Book is the quintessential example of "Little Magazines", a genre of publishing that celebrates literary and artistic talent through fine-press printing. The genre emerged out of the arts and crafts movement of the Fin de Siecle as a protest to industrialized media production. The Chap-Book was a periodical published by H.S. Stone & Company, founded by Harvard graduates Melville Stone and Hannibal Ingalls Kimball in 1893. This issue features work by some of the foremost authors and artists of their generation, including W.B. Yeats, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and H.H. Bennett (Wikipedia) (Schlereth) (Pinkerton & Hudson). "This publishing firm was established in 1893 by Herbert S.Stone, son of Chicago Daily News founder Melville E.Stone, and fellow Harvard University undergraduate Hannibal Ingalls Kimball. The company was short-lived but prestigious, publishing fine books in the tradition of William Morris and his Kelmscott Press. The chief editor was Lucy Monroe, sister of Poetry founder Harriet Monroe. In 1894, the firm launched THE CHAP-BOOK, a literary magazine influenced by the English Arts and Crafts Movement. It also began publication of the periodical "House Beautiful" Producing editions of Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, and others, the company turned to local authors as well, presenting Hamlin Garland's "Crumbling Idols" in 1894 and "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly" in 1895; George Barr McCutcheon's "Graustark" and "Brewster's Millions" also appeared under its imprint. The firm closed in 1897; its successor, Herbert S. Stone and Company, continued issuing THE CHAP-BOOK for another year, presenting the serial publication of Henry James's "What Maisie Knew". Herbert Stone died in the sinkiing of the Lusitania in 1915. Good Only .
Keywords: Fin-de-Siecle, Chicago Literary Renaissance, Fine Press Printing, Literary Publications, Small Press, Early Literary Journals, William Butler Yeats
Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 85927
- Book number: 85927