The San Francisco call., 1910-09-18
Notes
BY Margaret Marshall Doyle

rSiulhdHo buTguor1 Is spending d rev
days in this city. preparing for an ex-
tended trip into the painted desert and
throughout the extent of Arizona and
New Mexico. seeking new fields for
further sketches. This will not be
Burgdorffs first invasion with palette
and brush of the desert country, as the
desert sights and scenes with their
rich color, their clear light and their
brilliantly dazzling sunshine have al
ready inspired his genius. his late
exhibition at the vickery. Atkins &
Torrey galleries having been composed
mainly of sketches of the sort. deep.
still and wonderfully beautiful.
In with these were hung some of his
later canvases, depicting shore and
water and stretches of sandy beach at
Carmel, surmounted by luminous and
beautiful sky and cloud effects. show
ing the artists adaptability to an en-
tirely new line of work
Burgdorff will leave this week for
Ancona. the city of the clouds, and from
there will cross the desert by easy
stages, painting as he goes, and it will
be we'll into the winter of next year
before he returns to California and re-
opens his studio in Carmel.
Charles Dickman has also closed his
studio in Montgomery street for short
while. as he sailed for visit to the
orient the early part of the week. The
time he will be gone is indefinite, as
the trip is more for pleasure than for
work of any kind.
T. II. Richardson arrived last week
from Alaska, where he went a few
months ago on his annual sketching
trip, and is busily at work in his Car
mel studio getting his summer work
in order for his winter exhibition, to
be held in this city in one of the local
galleries. The Alaskan landscape, un-
usual and beautiful, and especially the
life of the people and the glaciers of
the northern waters have appealed to
his taste, so his coming public display
promises to be a most interesting one
along a unique line. No definite date
for it has as yet been set.
An interesting exhibition and a novel
one in this city is that of typographical
art and book binding, which will be
shown this week, beginning tomorrow
morning. at Paul Elder & Co.'s in Grant
avenue. Hand compositions, the work
of the Tomoyo press, of the Rogers
Doves press, of j. Golden -Sanderson,
William Norris and many other famous
presses from all parts of the world,
will be shown in this view, which is the
first of the kind ever held in San Fran
cisco, in spite of the fact that typo
graphical exhibits have been annual af-
fairs in New York and other eastern
cities for many years.
Handmade papers from the various
historic mills of China, Japan, Italy.
France, Spain. England and Holland
will be shown, with the apparatus
necessary for the work, even to the
screen used in irnpressing on each sheet
the watermark showing its particular
make. A special display of the many
hundreds of pieces of mitered brass
necessary for rule work and all of the
purest phases of type existing will be
displayed in handsome frames, in
keeping with their tone, on the occa-
sion
In connection with these will be
shown bindings by noted craftsmen
collected from near and far. with some
of the works of local lights holding
prominent place, among these being
Miss Octavia Holden. Miss Rose Taus-
sig and Miss Mildred Holden, who will
show some hand carved wood book
covers.
Not the least interesting part of the
display will be the books themselves
that will be shown, many of which are
odd and unique and often the only
copy ever printed. Notable among
these will be the wonderful volume
presented to Bishop william Ford
Nichols to celebrate his twentieth an
niversary as bishop of California, all
of the well known Episcopalians in
cluded in his diocese contributing to it.
1t is an autograph volume and con-
tains 5000 or 5000 prominent Episco-
palian names of the state and city. 1t
is printed on the heaviest Arches
paper, the old mill that has produced
the same hand made paper for more
than 500 years. and is printed in strik-
ing Caxton type. 1T is bound in heavy
Roman vellum with a gold medallion
plate inset and is inclosed in a purple
case. The bishop has kindly loaned it
for the exhibition. and this is the only
time it has ever been publicly shown.
Decorative work by various we'll.
known artists for the interiors of diff
ferent books are also shown, as we'll as
all the necessary tools and pastes and
twines and presses necessary for the