Journal of a journey across the plains in 1859 / by James Berry Brown ; edited with an introduction by George R. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, James Berry, author.

Contributor:

Stewart, George R., 1895-1980, editor, writer of introduction.

Chase, Alexander, illustrator.

Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017, book designer.

Philpott, Arlen, printer.

Schuberth Bookbindery, binder.

Reliable Lithograph Company, lithographer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 135.

This publication is number 135 of the Book Club of California

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Overland journeys to the Pacific.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson Antiqua.

Pictorial bindings (Binding)

Travel literature.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xvii, [1], 72, [2] pages : illustrations, facsimile, map ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

[Fairfax, California] : Letterpress by Arlen Philpott.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1970.

Credits:

Designer, Jack Werner Stauffacher.

Notes:

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

"Designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Bembo and Janson-Antiqua types; letterpress by Arlen Philpott; lithography by Reliable Lithograph Co.; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. 450 copies have been printed in November 1970."--Colophon.

"Title in terra cotta and black. Divisional titles in terra cotta. Reproductions in blue of fourteen watercolor sketches by Alexander Chase. Facsimile of one page of the journal ... Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: Blue and white pictorial boards (facsimile of watercolor sketch by Alexander Chase); white spine label printed with title.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("CO C-1644") 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 paper and mylar dust jackets with manuscript title ("Journal of a Journey Across the Plains") in pencil 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 135

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 51

OCLC:

149160