Research Catalog

Title

Journey round my room / Xavier de Maistre ; photographs by Ross Anderson.

Author

Maistre, Xavier de, 1763-1852.

Publication

San Francisco : The Arion Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anderson, Ross.
• Arion Press.
• Mackenzie & Harris.
• Leewood Press.
• Arjomari Prioux S.A.

Description

149 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Miniature rooms
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Suburban French (Monotype)
• Staged photography
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Gallia

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Suburban French (Monotype)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Gallia.

Note

• "... designed and produced at the Arion Press, under the direction of Andrew Hoyem, with the assistance of Gerald Reddan ... [et al.]. The types are Suburban French for the text, composed and cast in Monotype by Mackenzie & Harris, and Gallia for initial letters and display, in hand composition. The type was printed by letterpress on Arches Text ... The photographs [of small models of the 'room'] were printed by offset lithography on UV/Ultra II paper by the Leewood Press. This is the seventy-eighth publication of the Arion Press. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies hors de commerce."--Colophon.
• Leaf [16] signed by the photographer.
• 30 copies issued for sale are housed in a special designer box signed by the photographer.

Language (note)

• "This translation [of Voyage autour de ma chambre] from the French draws upon those of Henry Attwell, 1871, and Edmund Goldsmid, 1885"--Prospectus, p. 5.

Binding (note)

• Bound in white cloth, overprinted with gray and pink stripes, title printed in black on spine; pink endpapers.

Call Number

Rare Books 09-565

OCLC

135024425

Author

Maistre, Xavier de, 1763-1852.

Title

Journey round my room / Xavier de Maistre ; photographs by Ross Anderson.

Imprint

San Francisco : The Arion Press, 2007.

Language

"This translation [of Voyage autour de ma chambre] from the French draws upon those of Henry Attwell, 1871, and Edmund Goldsmid, 1885"--Prospectus, p. 5.

Binding

Bound in white cloth, overprinted with gray and pink stripes, title printed in black on spine; pink endpapers.

Local Note

Rare Books copy is no. 117.

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Added Author

Anderson, Ross.

Arion Press.

Mackenzie & Harris.

Leewood Press.

Arjomari Prioux S.A.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 09-565