The Silverado squatters : the introductory chapter / Robert Louis Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, author.

Contributor:

Newman, Alfred W., sponsor, book producer.

Sonnichsen, Joanne, sponsor.

Hardacre, Kenneth, book designer, printer.

Newman, Kitty, 1940- sponsor, book producer.

Kit-Cat Press, printer, publisher.

Solo-Type, typographer.

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, associated name.

Zamorano Club, associated name.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--Description and travel.

California.

Travel.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Garamond.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Sapphire.

Conqueror High White Wove (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

11, [1] pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Gloucestershire, England : Privately printed at The Kit Cat Press, 1988.

Notes:

"A keepsake commissioned by Roxburghers Alfred W. Newman of Vallejo and Joanne Sonnichsen of Menlo Park for those attending the joint Roxburghe/Zamorano meeting in Northern California, 1-2 October, 1988. Designed and printed in 150 copies by Kenneth Hardacre at his Kit-Cat Press, 10 Fosseway Drive, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 ODU, England. Text printed in Monotype Garamond from Solo-Type, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire with title in Sapphire on Conqueror High White Wove with covers of jade Conqueror Board. 500 copies with a different colophon were printed for Mr. Newman who assembled and sewed the sheets of both editions."--Colophon

Alternate colophon: "A keepsake from Al and Kitty Newman of Vallejo, California. Designed and printed in 150 copies by Kenneth Hardacre at his Kit-Cat Press, 10 Fosseway Drive, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 ODU, England. Text printed in Monotype Garamond from Solo-Type, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire with title in Sapphire on Conqueror High White Wove with covers of jade Conqueror Board assembled and sewn by Al and Kitty Newman.'

Place of publication from colophon.

Facsimile of a page from Stevenson's journal tipped to page 10.

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 has alternate colophon.

OCLC:

32588303