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Treasures of the Book Club Library. Part two.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1692
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Book Club of California, publisher.
- Land, Barbara J. (Barbara Jane), author.
- Series:
- Keepsake series (Book Club of California) ; 2000.
- The Book Club of California keepsake ; 2000
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book Club of California. Library.
- Book Club of California.
- Fine books--History.
- Fine books.
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- Bookbinding--History.
- Bookbinding.
- Illustration of books--History.
- Illustration of books.
- Genre:
- History.
- Portfolios -- California -- 20th century.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 portfolio (13 folders) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Twelve treasures from the library
- Twelve treasures from the library of the Book Club of California.
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, [2000]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Gary F. Kurutz
- Constitutiones clarissimi atque excellentissimi ordinis velleris aurei. Antwerp, 1559
- The art of graveing and etching. London, 1662
- Albrecht Dürers Christlich-Mythologische Handzeichnungen. Munich, ca. 1808
- The art of drawing on stone. London, 1824
- Rapport sur les recherches, relatives à l'invention premiére e à l'usage le plus ancien de l'imprimerie stéréotype. La Haye, 1833
- The anatomy of sleep. London, 1842
- The miracles of Our Lord. London, 1848
- Horace : Opera. Paris, 1855
- The wood beyond the world. London, 1894
- Anleitung zur Stereotypen Giesserei in Gips- und Papiermatrizen. Leipzig, 1894
- The triumphs of Francesco Petrarch. London, 1906
- The Historie of Don-Quixote. London, 1927-1928.
- Notes:
- " ... keepsake for the year 2000 ... was written by Barbara Jane Land ... Designed and produced for members of the Club by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press in Mountain View, California."--Colophon of each folder.
- Part one published in 1997 with title: Twelve treasures from the library of the Book Club of California.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 49338593
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