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BR : a panel discussion at the Bruce Rogers centenary held at Purdue University / by Harry Duncan, K.K. Merker and Ward Ritchie.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 63
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan, Harry, author.
- Merker, K. K., 1932-2013, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 166.
- Publication ; no. 166
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small presses--United States.
- Small presses.
- Private presses--United States.
- Private presses.
- Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
- Rogers, Bruce.
- Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)--History.
- Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.).
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 64, [2] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Los Angeles?] : Printed by Richard Hoffman
- Other Title:
- Panel discussion at the Bruce Rogers centenary, held at Purdue University
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1981.
- Credits:
- Designer, Ward Ritchie.
- Notes:
- "The colloquium published here took place during the Bruce Rogers Centennial Conference in May 1970, with the panel’s assigned subject being 'Small Presses/Private Presses.' Ward Ritchie’s presentation includes an interesting letter from BR to Edwin Grabhorn, commending Grabhorn for his delightful use of the modern Baskerville type"--Book Club of California.
- Series statement from slip mounted on verso of title page.
- "This is the second book to be published by the Book Club of California supported by the Special Fund established in memory of Dorothy and David Magee. It was designed by Ward Ritchie and set in Bruce Rogers' Centaur type by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. The engravings were made by Pall Bohne. Six hundred and fifty copies were printed by Richard Hoffman, of which fifty are reserved for collaborators and Purdue University"--Colophon.
- Title in orange and black. Reproductions of Rogers’ work throughout text ... Paper machine made. Bound in brown cloth, device ingold on front cover, title in gold on back."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: Full brown cloth; device stamped in gold on left board; gold-stamped spine title.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("600 copies") in pencil on front pastedown; manuscript note ("NR C608") 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 in white dust jacket with manuscript title ("BR") on spine.
- Cited in:
- Book Club of California. The two hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol2-The-Two-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 166
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 53
- OCLC:
- 7739660
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