1 option
California in the fifties : fifty views of cities and mining towns in California and the West, originally drawn on stone by Kuchel & Dresel and other early San Francisco lithographers / introduction & explanatory text by Douglas S. Watson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Portfolio AC9 W3326 936c
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Douglas S. (Douglas Sloane)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Pictorial works.
- California.
- Lithography, American.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adelman, Seymour, 1906- (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 113 unnumbered pages : 50 plates (including frontispiece) ; 32 x 48 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : John Howell, 1936.
- Notes:
- "California in the fifties, is issued by John Howell in an edition of 1,000 copies, as follows: 850 copies upon Highway Text, bound in deep wine buckram; 100 copies upon Alexandra Japan paper, with an accompanying portfolio containing an extra set of plates, an original California newspaper of the period, and an original document or letter, also of the period, bound in half morocco; 50 special copies upon Alexandra Japan, specially bound in half morocco, with an accompanying portfolio containing a duplicate set of plates, an original California newspaper and an original letter or document of the period. With each of these Special Copies is one of the original lithographs reproduced in the volume, California in the fifties, the printing of which was done in San Francisco by A. Carlisle & Co., the successors of the pioneer firm of Britton & Rey from whose establishment most of the lithographs here reproduced were originally issued."--Colophon.
- "Typography designed by Edwin Grabhorn. Printing and Lithotones by A. Carlisle & Company."--Title page verso.
- "Errata" slip inserted between plate 50 and p. [113].
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is gift presented to the Penn Libraries in 1965 by Seymour Adelman.
- OCLC:
- 1952199
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.