A Vulcan among the Argonauts : being vivid excerpts from those most original and amusing memoirs of John Carr, blacksmith / edited with a preface & postscript by Robin Lampson ... illustrated by "hans."

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, John, 1827-1896, author.

Contributor:

Lampson, Robin, 1900-1978, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Fields, George (Bookseller), publisher.

Hans, illustrator.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--California.

Frontier and pioneer life.

California--Gold discoveries.

California.

Gold mines and mining.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Lampson, Robin, 1900-1978 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Engelman, Florence Ruthven (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], viii, [4], 73, [5] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Berkeley : The Archetype Press

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : George Fields, MCMXXXVI [1936].

Notes:

"500 copies designed and hand printed by Wilder Bentley & his wife Ellen, apprentice, the Archetype Press, Berkeley, July, 1936."

"It is the purpose of this brief volume ... to preserve, by means of drastic abridgement, the truly significant and interesting part of John Carr's record [Pioneer days in California]"--Page iii

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.

OCLC:

4996357