The right eye of the commander : a New Year's legend of Spanish California / Bret Harte ; garnished by Hans and served up savorily from the hand presses of Wilder & Ellen Bentley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, author.

Contributor:

Bentley, Wilder, 1900-1989, printer.

Bentley, Ellen, printer.

Hans, illustrator.

Archetype Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spaniards--California--Fiction.

Spaniards.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Bentley, Wilder, 1900-1989 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Bentley, Ellen (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Hans (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[24] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Archetype Press, 1937.

Notes:

A colophon is printed at foot of last page (with names given in ms.): One of 350 copies, of which 75 are to be hand colored by [Hans]. Designed, hand set and printed on a hand press by [Wilder] and [Ellen] Bentley at the Archetype Press, Berkeley, September 3, 1937.

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 in protective wrapper.

OCLC:

1031857605