The bicentennial of lithography : a keepsake for the members of the Book Club of California.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twyman, Michael, author.

Taylor, J. Curtiss, author.

Kurutz, Gary F., author.

Fox, George K., author.

Contributor:

Koch, Peter Rutledge, book designer.

Seibert, Richard, book designer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Phelps-Schaefer Lithographics, printer.

Peter Koch, Printer, printer.

Cardoza-James Binding Company, binder.

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

Series:

Keepsake series (Book Club of California) ; 1999.

[Keepsake] ; [1999]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lithography--History.

Lithography.

History.

Genre:

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Wrappers (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Manufacture:

[Place of printing not identified] : Printed by Phelps-Schaefer Litho-Graphics Co.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1999.

Contents:

Lithography: the birth of a new printing process / Michael Twyman

Lithographic stone / Michael Twyman

Senefelder's pole press / Michael Twyman

Trade cards of early British lithographers / Michael Twyman

The lithographic letterer / Michael Twyman

Grapes and grape vines of California by Edward Bosqui / J. Curtiss Taylor

El Dorado on stone: books of the California Gold Rush / Gary F. Kurutz

Lithographs of gold: the prints of George Henry Goddard / Gary F. Kurutz

American lithographers' trade cards / George K. Fox.

Notes:

Title in red and black.

Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.

"The bicentennial of lithography was designed for The Book Club of California by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Richard Seibert. Printed by Phelps-Schaefer Litho-Graphics Co. and bound by Cardoza-James Bookbinding Company. The cover was printed letterpress by Peter Koch, Printers. The title illustration was adapted from a Rudolph Koch woodcut in Fetschrift [sic] der Maschinen Fabrik Faber & Schleicher, A.G."--Colophon.

Binding: orange paper wrappers; title and title vignette printed on red and gray background on front wrapper; red ornament on back wrapper; title and publisher printed in black on spine..

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1096 O") in pencil on first page of volume.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

OCLC:

44566287