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A tribute to Edwin Grabhorn & the Grabhorn Press / by James D. Hart.

LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Reference 309
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hart, James D. (James David), 1911-1990, author.
Contributor:
Farquhar, Marjory Bridge, 1903-1999, illustrator.
Hoyem, Andrew, printer.
Grabhorn, Robert, printer.
Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer.
San Francisco Public Library. Friends., publisher, sponsoring body.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Grabhorn, Edwin E.
Grabhorn Press.
Printers--California--San Francisco--Biography.
Printers.
Small presses--California--San Francisco.
Small presses.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Imprints.
San Francisco (Calif.).
California--San Francisco.
Genre:
Biographies.
Bibliographies.
Limitation statements (Publishing).
Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Franciscan.
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[6], 25, [1] pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Other Title:
A tribute to Edwin Grabhorn and the Grabhorn Press
Place of Publication:
[San Francisco] : Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 1969.
Notes:
"An address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, Fifty years of the Grabhorn Press: a tribute to Edwin Grabhorn sponsored by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, at the Main Library ... on April 24, 1969."
"Printed in an edition of 1000 copies from Franciscan type, the private type of the Grabhorn Press, by Andrew Hoyem & Robert Grabhorn in October 1969. The photographs reproduced were taken in 1936 by Marjorie Farquhar at the Press, Commercial St., San Francisco."--Colophon.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket.
Cited in:
Books, pamphlets, portfolios designed, printed, published by Andrew Hoyem (Ohio State University Libraries), 78
OCLC:
1686477

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