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Mr. Eric Gill : recollections of David Kindersley.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 110
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kindersley, David, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 126.
- [Publication] ; [numer 126]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gill, Eric, 1882-1940.
- Engravers.
- Engravers--England--Biography.
- Artists--England--Biography.
- Artists.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Waverley.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 24, [2] pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Place of printing not identified] : Printed ... by the Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1967.
- Notes:
- "Four hundred copies of Mr Eric Gill were printed for members of The Book Club of California by the Ward Ritchie Press. An edition for the Typophiles of New York and for the author and printer have also been printed."--Colophon.
- "Title in red and black, initial letter in red. Twenty-four plates illustrating Gill’s work with explanatory captions, not included in pagination. Type Waverley intertype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- "A joint publication with the Typophiles"--Book Club of California.
- Binding: full black cloth with Gill’s monogram stamped in gold on left board; title stamped in gold on spine; untrimmed fore-edges.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("Aw27/FO" and "C1016 CO") in pencil on front free endpaper; bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- 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 126
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 50
- OCLC:
- 886001
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