Napa Valley heyday / Richard H. Dillon ; with historical photographs by Charles B. Turrill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, Richard H., author.

Contributor:

Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe), 1854-1927, photographer.

Clark, Jonathan, 1952- book designer, typographer, printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Artichoke Press, book designer, typographer, printer.

Shoreline Printing and Graphics, lithographer.

Cardoza-James Binding Company, binder.

Mohawk Paper Mills (Cohoes, N.Y.), papermaker.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 218.

Publication ; no. 218

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napa Valley (Calif.)--History--19th century.

Napa Valley (Calif.).

Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe), 1854-1927.

Turrill, Charles B.

California--Napa Valley.

Genre:

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- New Baskerville.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Isabella.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Local histories.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xi, 363 pages : illustrations, color map ; 32 cm.

Manufacture:

Mountain View, California : Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 2004.

Notes:

Folded color map laid in: Map of the central portion of Napa Valley and the town of St. Helena, reproduced from the original 1881 map in The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

"Design, typography, & scanning by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press, Mountain View, California. Lithography by Shoreline Printing, Mountain View. Binding by Cardoza-James Bookbinding, San Francisco. The edition is limited to 450 copies."--Colophon.

"Lithographed in three colors on Mohawk Superfine paper. The text is set in New Baskerville, with titles in Isabella, an 1892 Victorian display face. The natural-linen binding is enhanced by an antique vignette of Groezinger's Winery in Yountville; the endpapers feature Napa Valley scenes from 19th-century lithographs"--Publisher's prospectus.

Binding: full linen with oval inset illustration on left board; white paper spine label with title printed in red; illustrated endpapers; mylar dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-346) and index.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1306 AEC") 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: mylar dust jacket retained.

Cited in:

Book Club of California. A bibliography of the books published by The Book Club of California 1993–2009 http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2010Supplement.pdf number 218

Kurutz, Gary F. The Book Club of California at one hundred, page 59

OCLC:

58812447