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Artful deeds in the life of the felon, Grovenor Layton-- : a tale of the California gold rush / introduction by Richard H. Dillon.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 119
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 208.
- Book Club of California publication ; no. 208
- Standardized Title:
- Two years in the life of the felon Grovenor I. Layton.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Layton, Grovenor I., 1821-1852.
- Layton, Grovenor I.
- Criminals--California.
- Criminals.
- California--Gold discoveries.
- California.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Minion.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Scala.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Quadraat Italic.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
- Slipcases (Binding)
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 71, [1] pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Berkeley] : Printed ... by Peter Koch, with the assistance of Richard Seibert
- Other Title:
- Artful deeds
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1998.
- Notes:
- Possibly fictional; sometimes attributed to A.R. Orton. Cf. Introduction.
- Originally published in 1852 as: Two years in the life of the felon Grovenor I. Layton (cf. Sabin, 97588); and, Two eras in the life of the felon Grovenor I. Layton.
- Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.
- "Artful deeds was designed, composed, and printed letterpress in an edition of 350 copies by Peter Koch, with the assistance of Richard Seibert. The typefaces are Minion for the text with Scala & Quadraat italic for display ... Photolithography by Phelps/Schaefer Litho-Graphics Co., Inc. The book was bound by Cardoza-James Bookbinding Company and the slipcase constructed by Arnold Martinez"--Colophon.
- "Second color (red) on title page and initial letter for each chapter ... 350 copies designed and printed by Peter Koch of Berkeley."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: "Bound in dark yellow Fabriano Ingres paper on boards decorated with maps of a Gold Rush mining area. Imported Japanese red cloth for spine with pasted title, gray paper-covered slipcase by Arnold Martinez."--Book Club of California.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("C1005 AOO" and "Intro & condensed version of book: no need to read the rest!") 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: slip case 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 208
- Kurutz, Gary F. The Book Club of California at one hundred, page 57
- OCLC:
- 40437348
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