Remembering Albert Sperisen
By: William P. Barlow, Jr. [and others]
Contributors: Book Club of California; Yolla Bolly Press; Toyon Press
Series: Keepsake series (Book Club of California); Keepsake series (Book Club of California)
Publisher: The Book Club of California
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Printers; Book collectors; Type and type-founding; Specimens; Perpetua type
Notes: "This keepsake was designed and printed during the summer of 1999 in an edition of eleven hundred copies at The Yolla Bolly Press. The papers are Zerkall book for the text and Fabriano Tiziano covers. The text is set in Eric Gill's Perpetua types by hand at the Press and by Monotype at Mackenzie & Harris ... Line cut illustrations are from Albert Sperisen's Toyon Press studio-printshop in San Francisco."--Colophon.
Table of contents: title: Albert Sperisen and the Book Club of California / John W. Borden; title: Albert Sperisen, book collector and benefactor / Paul Birkel; title: Albert Sperisen and the Colt Press / William Matson Roth; title: Albert Sperisen at work / Robert G. Preis; title: A boon companion / Gloria Stuart; title: Two memories of Albert / Joanie Morgan; title: Tuesday mornings at the Book Club / Barabara Land; title: Albert Sperisen / Wm. P. Barlow Jr.; title: The pied piper of 29th Avenue / James Robertson.