!The purple cow!
By: by Gelett Burgess; a book of vagaries reprinted from "The lark" together with the very, very peculiar and most idyllic history of the chewing gum man
Publisher: William Doxey
Published: 1895
Place of publication: San Francisco (631 Market Street)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Nonsense verses; Juvenile literature; Children's poetry
Other titles: Chewing gum man.; Purple cow.
Notes: Third state.

For description of the different states of the 1st ed., cf. Johnson, Merle, American first editions (New York, 1929) p. 76.

Illustrated t.-p.

"Copyright by William Doxey, 631 Market st., San Francisco, 1895.

First published separate edition, first issue: printed on rough China paper on both sides of leaf; t.-p. has large black cow; dedication signed "Gelett Burgess". (Later issue printed on thinner, smoother paper, on one side only.) A few copies, for presentation, printed on white laid paper, the illustrations hand colored by the author.

In preparations for this edition, a few experimental copies were printed with t.-p. having horizontal ornamentals at top and bottom; dedication signed "F.G.B."

First published in The Lark, vol.I, no.1, May 1895.