El Triunfo de la Cruz : a description of the building by Father Juan Ugarte of the first ship made in California : an essay / written by Theodore H. Hittell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hittell, Theodore Henry, 1830-1917, author.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illuminator.

Krimpen, Jan van, 1892-1958, type designer.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

Japan Paper Company, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ugarte, Juan de, 1662-1730.

Ugarte, Juan de.

Triunfo de la Cruz (Ship).

Shipbuilding--California--History.

Shipbuilding.

Missions--California.

Missions.

California.

Genre:

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Lutetia.

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Local histories.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[2], 24, [1] pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Grabhorn Press, 1930.

Notes:

"50 copies of this essay by Thoedore H. Hittell have been reprinted from the Californian of 1880, at the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Maxine and Valenti Angelo at Christmas"--Colophon.

"Colored headpiece and hand-colored paragraph marks in red by Valenti Angelo. type Lutetia, handset; paper Unbleached Arnold. Bound in flexible green boards; cream label printed in black on back."--Heller.

Page [1] has title printed in red in the shape of a cross, with four illuminations surrounding title.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 145

OCLC:

12079299