An edition of Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco (2003)

Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco

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Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San ...
Gray A. Brechin
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Publisher
Book Club of California, San Francisco Public Library
Language
English
Pages
79

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Subjects

Inscriptions, Buildings, San Francisco Public Library, Library buildings, Architectural inscriptions, History, Historic buildings, Architectural Decoration and ornament

Places

San Francisco, California
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Cover of: Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco
Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco
2003, Book Club of California, San Francisco Public Library
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Table of Contents

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

Edition 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.

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San Francisco
Other Titles
Inscriptions

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
729.190979461
Library of Congress
CN25.S36 I57 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
79 p. :
Number of pages
79

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22996071M
OCLC/WorldCat
52492923

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