San Francisco : a modern cosmopolis / by Robert Louis Stevenson ; preface by James D. Hart ; drawings by Irene Pattinson ; photographs from the collection of Wyland Stanley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, author.

Contributor:

Hart, James D. (James David), 1911-1990, writer of preface.

Pattinson, Irene, illustrator.

Wilson, Adrian, printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Press in Tuscany Alley, printer.

Neal, Stratford & Kerr, lithographer.

Mackenzie & Harris, typographer.

Schuberth Bookbindery, bookbinder.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 114.

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 114

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Travel.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.

Case bindings (Binding)

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Travel literature.

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 67 & 128))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 67 & 128))

Physical Description:

51 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 17 x 25 cm.

Manufacture:

San Francisco : Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1963.

Notes:

"450 copies printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Lithographic reproductions by Neal, Stratford & Kerr. Typography by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc. Binding by The Schuberth Bookbindery."--Colophon.

"Title in orange and black, marginal decoration in orange throughout text. Eleven pages of photographic reproductions throughout text ...Type Centaur monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: quarter orange cloth over brown and white decorated boards; grey spine label printed in white ("STEVENSON SAN FRANCISCO").

First published in the Magazine of art, May 1883.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies Book Club of California 67 and Book Club of California 128 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 67) has manuscript note ("TC C-1669") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 128) has manuscript notes ("18129" and "(BOOK CLUB OF CAL.)" and "C964 KE") on front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 128) has publisher's prospectus for this edition laid in.

Cited in:

Book Club of California. The two hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol2-The-Two-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 114

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 50

Other Format:

Online version: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. San Francisco.

OCLC:

3421520