In miners' mirage-land / by Idah Meacham Strobridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strobridge, Idah Meacham, 1855-1932, author.

Contributor:

Gleason, J. Duncan (Joe Duncan), 1881-1959, illustrator, book designer.

Artemisia Bindery, publisher, binder.

B.R. Baumgardt & Co., printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nevada--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Nevada.

Gold miners--Fiction.

Gold miners.

Silver miners--Fiction.

Silver miners.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Strobridge, Idah Meacham, 1855-1932 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Fitch, George Hamlin, 1852-1925 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Meacham, George Washington (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

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

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

Strobridge, Idah Meacham, 1855-1932 (autograph)

Physical Description:

[14], 129, [3] pages (last page blank), [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Manufacture:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Printed by the Baumgardt Publishing Company, 1904.

Other Title:

In miners' mirage land

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Artemisia Bindery, 1904.

Notes:

Many of these sketches originally appeared in the "Los Angeles Times" and the "San Francisco Chronicle."

"Of this autographed edition of In miners' mirage-land, one thousand copies were made ..."-- Page [7] of preliminary pages.

Imprint from title page verso.

"And here ends In Miners' Mirage-Land, as written by Idah Meacham Strobridge, with cover design and chapter decorations made by J. Duncan Gleason, and published by the Artemisia Bindery, which is in Los Angeles, California, at the sign of the Sagebrush ; and completed on the nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four"--Colophon.

Sepia frontispiece.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 is no. 698 of a limited ed. of 1000 copies signed by the author. Cf. page [7] of preliminary pages.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has on second blank leaf following front free endpaper dated 20th-century ms. inscription ("To one of the best of Men, one of the best of friends - George Hamlin Fitch from Idah Meacham Strobridge June 6th 1906") recording the gift of this volume from the author to George Hamlin Fitch.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has on blank leaf preceding half-title leaf autograph ("George Washington Meacham") followed by ms. note ("who illuminated this book was born August 19th, 1827; and this is his autograph."). George Washington Meacham (1827-1914) is the author's father. The text decorations are hand-colored by Meacham.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 bound by the Artemisia Bindery in three-quarter gold-ruled red leather over marbled boards; gold-ruled spine panels; title, ornament, and author's surname stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; untrimmed fore- and tail edges; illustrated front wrapper and blank back wrapper bound in.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: "This volume was bound at the Artemisia Bindery in Los Angeles, California, on the Twentieth day of May in the year MCMVi and is numbered 967 Signed by Idah M. Strobridge"--Page following back wrapper. (The date and copy number are supplied in ms. along with the author's autograph.)

Schimmel Collection copy 2 is no. 94 of a limited ed. of 1000 copies signed by the author. Cf. page [7] of preliminary pages.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: edges untrimmed.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 69. Edges untrimmed.

OCLC:

3141272