At the sign of the lark : William Doxey's San Francisco publishing venture / by Robert D. Harlan ; with an annotated bibliography

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harlan, Robert D., author.

Contributor:

Berliner, Harold, book designer, printer.

Kuntze, Kit, printer.

Cabral, Frank, printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Curtis Fine Papers, 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. 173.

Publication ; number 173

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doxey, William, -1916.

Doxey, William.

Publishers and publishing--California--San Francisco.

Publishers and publishing.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Imprints.

San Francisco (Calif.).

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Private press books (Printing)

Errata lists (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Michelangelo.

Case bindings (Binding)

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

84, [4] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

[Place of printing not identified] : Printed by Harold Berliner

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1983.

Notes:

"This book was designed & printed by Harold Berliner and is set in Baskerville type with Michelangelo capitals used for the title. Five hundred fifty copies were printed on Ragston paper with the assistance of Kit Kuntze & Frank Cabral in June of 1983."--Colophon.

"Title in purple and black. Half-title, initials, divisional title and marginal date in bibliography in purple. Eight pages of reproductions from Doxey’s publications. An errata slip, photocopy reproduction, laid in. Type Baskerville monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: Full purple cloth; device stamped in gold on left board; title and device stamped in gold on spine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-82) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("550 copies Kornul[?]" and "TC C748") 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 173

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 53

Other Format:

Online version: Harlan, Robert D. At the sign of the lark.

OCLC:

9890360