Muleback to the convention : letters of J. Ross Browne, reporter to the Constitutional Convention, Monterey, September-October, 1849.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875, author.

Contributor:

Seeger, Harold, printer.

Sperisen, Albert, 1908-1999, printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Black Vine Press, printer.

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Series:

Publication ; number 76

[Publication] ; [number 76]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--Description and travel.

California.

Voyages to the Pacific coast.

Travel.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Scotch Roman.

Case bindings (Binding)

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Publishers' advertisements.

Travel literature.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor) (Dechert copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xxii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 42 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portrait, facsimile ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1950.

[Place of printing not identified] : Printed at The Black Vine Press ... by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen, September, 1950.

Notes:

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

"400 copies have been printed at The Black Vine Press in September, 1950 by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen"--Colophon.

"Reproduction of oil painting of Browne facing first page of text; sketch on titlepage in black and three illustrations in tan, green, and teal blue by Browne; 4 p. facsimile on blue paper inserted opposite page 36. Type Scotch Roman linotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: blue decorated boards (facsimile of manuscript leaf); title in blue on black background on spine; deckled edges.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C888 TT") in pencil on front free endpaper.

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has publisher's prospectus for this edition laid in.

Cited in:

Book Club of California. The hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol1-The-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 76

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 47

OCLC:

1814456