Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco
By: Gray Brechin ... [et al.] ; Jack W. Stauffacher, editor.
Contributors: Brechin, Gray A.; Stauffacher, Jack Werner.; Letbetter, Dennis.; Stone, Sumner, 1946-; Harvey, Michael.; Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.; Book Club of California.; San Francisco Public Library.; Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Book Club of California; San Francisco Public Library
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: San Francisco Public Library -- Buildings.; San Francisco Public Library -- History.; Inscriptions -- California -- San Francisco.; Architectural inscriptions.; Library buildings -- California -- San Francisco.
Other titles: Inscriptions
Notes: Photography of the inscriptions at the Old Main Library by Dennis Ledbetter.

"Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press ... Set in Cycles types, designed by Sumner Stone. Printing by Charles Graphics Inc. ... under the supervision of Susan Schaefer. Binding by George Caughman of Cardoza-James Binding Company"--Colophon.

"Edition is limited to 1000 copies"--Colophon.

Printed wrapper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prospectus laid in.

One copy in San Francisco History Center signed by contributors on contents page.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Vita sine literis mors est / Andrea V. Grimes; title: Indestructible by reason of beauty : the beaumanence of a public library building / Gray Brechin; title: The inscriptions : where they came from, how they were made / Michael Harvey; title: Rock wraps paper / Sumner Stone; title: A note on photographing the inscriptions / Dennis Letbetter; title: Of the inscriptions and symbols carved on sepulchres / Leon Battista Alberti [in an 18th-century translation by Giacomo Leoni].