Les architectes du livre : contemporary creative French bookbinding from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan A. Gunst and Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Heller in an exhibition by the Stanford University Libraries shown in the Albert M. Bender Room, September 23-October 20, 1956.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bender, J. Terry (John Terry), author, curator.

Contributor:

Cain, Julien, 1887-1974, writer of preface.

Brin, Erwana, writer of preface.

Gunst, Morgan A., publisher.

Stanford University. Libraries., publisher.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, honoree.

Zamorano Club, honoree.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fine bindings--France--20th century--Exhibitions.

Fine bindings.

Bookbinding--France--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Bookbinding.

France.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[32] pages ; 33 cm

Manufacture:

San Francisco : Grabhorn Press

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Printed for Morgan A. Gunst and the Stanford University Libraries, [1956]

Notes:

"The exhibition has been arranged and the catalogue compiled by J. Terry Bender, Chief of the Division of Special Collections and Keeper of Rare Books to the University, Stanford University Libraries."--Verso of title leaf.

"One hundred copies of this catalogue have been printed by the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco for Morgan A. Gunst and the Stanford University Libraries as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles at Stanford on Sunday afternoon, September 9, 1956."--Colophon.

Without pagination.

Title and text in red and black; printer's device in red at colophon.

Prefatory material in French and English by Julien Cain and E. Brin.

Binders exhibited: Rose Adler, Paul Bonet, Robert Bonfils, Georges Cretté, Henri Creuzevault, René Kieffer, Jean Lambert, J. Anthoine Legrain from a design by Pierre Legrain, and Pierre Lucien Martin.

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.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in paper wrappers with title printed in gold on front wrapper; deckled edges, untrimmed.

OCLC:

79443661