Aurifodina, or Adventures in the Gold Region
Andrew Hoyem, San Francisco, California, 1974
Description
This is a fantastical novel of the gold rush, published in 1849, resurrected by the Book Club of California and issued as its fall selection for 1974. The publications committee of the Club stipulated that this be one of the less elaborate and least expensive of their publications.
Special feature: Title on title age and paragraph on page 91 is gold stamped.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director/designer
- Andrew Hoyem
- Illustrator
- Bruce Conner
- Production manager
- Andrew Hoyem
- Authors
- Cantell A. Bigly, G.W. Peck, James D. Hart (preface)
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5 inches
- Pages
- 122
- Quantity printed
- edition of 400
- Price
- $24.00
- Typeface
- Monotype Cochin, 12/16, with display in foundry Engravers, Engravers Shaded and Cochin Italic
- Typesetters
- Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., Andrew Hoyem, Printer
- Printer
- Andrew Hoyem
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Paper
- Curtis Rag, 80 lb., Cream
- Paper supplies
- Butler Paper Company
- Plate maker
- Graphic Arts Engraving (illustrations)
- Binder
- Cardoza-James Binding Company
- Binding materials
- bound in Holliston Roxite Vellum Black on 82. Pt binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, round back
- Endpapers
- plain in text stock
- Publisher
- The Book Club of California
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