Research Catalog

Title

The Ephemera of Adrian Wilson : an annotated list, 1944-1988 / by James Linden ; commentary by Joyce Lancaster Wilson.

Author

Linden, James.

Publication

San Francisco : Press in Tuscany Alley, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Joyce Lancaster, -1996
• Wehlage, James
• Press in Tuscany Alley, publisher.
• Taurus Bookbindery, binder.

Description

151 pages : illustrations; 41 cm +

Subject

• Wilson, Adrian
• Printers > California > San Francisco

Genre/Form

• Private press books – California – San Francisco – 1994.
• Artists' books – California – San Francisco – 1994.

Note

• "This book was designed and hand-colored by James Linden, San Francisco. The composition and printing are by James Wehlage, completed August 1994, at The Press in Tuscany Alley on Adrian Wilson's Heidelberg Cylinder Press. The text is set in Janson and Janson Italic. Libra and the ampresand device created by Adrian Wilson are used for display. The paper is Rives Heavyweight, a 100% rag, acid-free stock. The end-papers are a special making of J. Barcham Green Handmake Tovil, watermarked with Adrian Wilson's type-juggler logo. Photographic reproduction is by Michael Mundy, who also created and signed the original photograph for the Afterward. Bound by Taurus Bookbindery, Berkeley, California. The edition is limited to seventy-five unnumbered copies with a separate portfolio of Adrian Wilson's ephemera. In addition, ten copies are hand-sewn in boards, bound in half leather, and presented in a custom box. These special copies are numbered I through X and contain additional ephemera, items signed by Adrian Wilson, an example of his calligraphic lettering, and original design material. Three hors de commerce copies are reserved for the participants"--colophon.

Binding (note)

• Bound in publisher's beige cloth boards with printed grey paper label on spine; ephemera housed in a beige cloth portfolio case; both book and porfolio housed in beige cloth slip case with pictorial grey paper label on spine.

Call Number

Rare Books+ 20-223

OCLC

32158928

Author

Linden, James.

Title

The Ephemera of Adrian Wilson : an annotated list, 1944-1988 / by James Linden ; commentary by Joyce Lancaster Wilson.

Imprint

San Francisco : Press in Tuscany Alley, 1994.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Bound in publisher's beige cloth boards with printed grey paper label on spine; ephemera housed in a beige cloth portfolio case; both book and porfolio housed in beige cloth slip case with pictorial grey paper label on spine. NN

Local Note

Rare Book Division Accession File 1990-1999 (rbk90.ask), Converted September 10, 2006.

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Added Author

Wilson, Joyce Lancaster, -1996, commentator for written text.

Wehlage, James, printer.

Press in Tuscany Alley, publisher.

Taurus Bookbindery, binder.

Research Call Number

Rare Books+ 20-223