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Grant Dahlstrom's patterned papers for the Castle Press.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Weather Bird 158
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paper--Specimens.
- Paper.
- Decorative paper--Specimens.
- Decorative paper.
- Book ornamentation--Specimens.
- Book ornamentation.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Printers' devices (Publishing)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6] pages, [24] leaves of plates : samples ; 25 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Perris, California : Printed by Vance Gerry ... at the press of the Orange Empire Railway Museum, [1988]
- Other Title:
- Patterned papers for the Castle Press
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Dawson's Book Shop, 1988.
- Notes:
- Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.
- Publisher's device on title leaf.
- "50 copies Printed and bound by Vance Gerry for Dawson's Book Shop Printed and bound at the press of the Orange Empire Railway Museum Perris California"--Colophon.
- The samples are mounted on 24 leaves with descriptive text on facing pages.
- Wrappers in dust jacket with paper label on front.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1243 NNC") in pencil on first leaf in volume.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained; edges untrimmed.
- OCLC:
- 20726559
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