A unique 1824 Columbian Press : a brief description / by Pall W. Bohne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bohne, Pall W., 1935- author.

Contributor:

Gerry, Vance, printer.

Weather Bird Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing presses.

Letterpress printing--Technological innovations.

Letterpress printing.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Falcon.

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 51 & 52))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 51 & 52))

Physical Description:

[2], 5, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

[Pasadena, Calif.] : Printed by Vance Gerry: The Weather Bird Press, [1974]

Notes:

"One hundred and twenty preview copies presented to the 1974 joing meeting of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs by Ernest A. Lindner."--Verso of title leaf.

"This booklet was written for the occasion of the first public display, after its restoration, of this unique 1824 Columbian press, at the Ninth California Antiquarian Book Fair held in Los Angeles in October of 1974."--Colophon.

"Line cut illustrations. Falcon type. Bound in various ways but most often as a self-cover booklet. Possibly 200 copies printed."--Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies Weather Bird 51 and Weather Bird 52 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 51) has manuscript notes ("C1283 AO" and "1/150") in pencil on front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 51) bound in printed brown paper wrappers with deckled fore-edge.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 52) has manuscript note ("NN. C1247") in pencil on page 1.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 52) bound as a self-cover booklet.

Cited in:

Gerry, Vance. Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press, number 21

OCLC:

1817302