The splendid idle forties : six stories of Spanish California / by Gertrude Atherton ; preface by Oscar Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948, author.

Contributor:

Dean, Mallette, 1907-1975, designer, engraver.

Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992, writer of preface.

Allen, Lewis M., book designer, printer, binder.

Allen, Dorothy, 1908-2006, book designer, printer, binder, colorist.

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

Allen Press, printer, publisher.

Arjomari (Firm), papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--Social life and customs--Fiction.

California.

Spaniards--California--History--Fiction.

Spaniards.

California--History--To 1846--Fiction.

California--Imprints.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Fiction.

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Romanée.

Case bindings (Binding)

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

110 pages : color illustrations ; 35 cm

Place of Publication:

Kentfield, California : The Allen Press, mcmlx [1960]

Contents:

The pearls of Loreto

The bells of San Gabriel

The story of La Pérdida

The conquest of Doña Jacoba

The vengeance of Padre Arroyo

When the devil was well.

Notes:

"This book is one of an edition limited to 150 copies. The type face is Romanée, hand-set; the paper is all-rag Rives from France, printed damp on an Acorn handpress. Initials and decorations were engraved by Mallette Dean. Designed, printed & bound in a Fortuny print by Lewis & Dorothy Allen."--Colophon.

"Binding, boards; acetate jacket. Title in red; with purple, blue, light green, yellow, sage green and black. The initials and decorations hand-colored throughout by Dorothy Allen ... Mallette Dean ... engraved seven large exquisite initials, some floral decorations, and a full page floral piece to embrace the two vertical columns of type on the title-page. all were beautifully illuminated in four or five colors. Left page margins carry the title; right page margins the name of the story--both in red, as are the folios."--Allen Press.

Deckled edges, untrimmed. Red endpapers. Paper spine label printed in red with title.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Cited in:

Allen Press. The Allen Press bibliography, 24 (page 51)

OCLC:

199476