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The Sierra Nevada suite / thirty-one wood engravings by Richard Wagener.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagener, Richard, artist.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 231.
- Book Club of California publication ; number 231
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wagener, Richard.
- Wood-engraving, American.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).
- Artists' books--Specimens.
- Artists' books.
- United States--Sierra Nevada.
- Genre:
- Wood engravings -- United States -- 21st century.
- Pictorial works.
- Specimens.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Modern laid papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Dante.
- Edges, untrimmed (Binding)
- Slip cases (Binding)
- Autographs (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [72] pages (2 folded) : chiefly illustrations ; 34 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Place of printing not identified] : Printed by Max Koch
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 2013.
- Notes:
- "The Sierra Nevada Suite was designed and produced in an edition of three hundred and eight numbered copies by Peter Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken for The Book Club of California. Ten artist's proofs designated A/P and ten printers proofs designated P/P are reserved. The wood engravings were printed by Richard Wagener. The typeface, Dante, designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, was originally hand-cut by Charles Malin and adapted for mechanical composition by Monotype in 1957. The text was cast at the letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler and printed by Max Koch on Zerkall Büttenpapier. Book binding and slipcases by John DeMerritt Bookbinding. Each book is numbered and signed by the artist."--Colophon.
- Publisher's name precedes place of publication in imprint.
- Without pagination.
- Titles and text printed in red and black.
- Issued in slip case. Binding: quarter dark blue ribbed cloth over green boards; illustration on left board; paper spine label printed in red and black ("SIERRA NEVADA SUITE RICHARD WAGENER"); orange endpapers; untrimmed fore- and tail edges.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 84 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in pencil) of a limited edition of 308 numbered copies signed by the artist in pencil. See colophon.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C-1583 100") in pencil on page [1].
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.
- OCLC:
- 846727079
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