Topography of the Castle Press, circa 1943 : and other dim recollections / by Vance Gerry ; for the Rounce & Coffin Club.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerry, Vance, author.

Contributor:

Rounce & Coffin Club, patron.

Weather Bird Press, publisher, binder.

Castle Press, printer.

Curtis Fine Papers, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Castle Press.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Falcon.

Illustrated works.

Memoirs.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[8], 4, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : folded map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Fallbrook : The Weather Bird Press, 1980.

Notes:

Place of publication appears after date of publication in imprint.

"80 copies specially printed for the Rounce & Coffin Club & 100 additional copies differently bound ... Map printed by the Castle Press."--Colophon.

"Ragston paper, Falcon type ... [A]ll bound by the [Weather Bird] press."--Gerry.

Title and text printed in orange and black.

Printer's device of Castle Press on title leaf and colophon.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1443 iT") in pencil on preliminary page [1].

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is one of a limited edition of 180 copies. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Cited in:

Gerry, Vance. Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press, 44

OCLC:

6779774