Marais salants

2001 · GKK1020-013 — Monterey CA: Monte Regio Press 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 12mo. 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. ii 38 pp. Half-title 2 photographic portraits of Baron Friedrich von Huegel tipped-in 1 at the frontispiece red fleuron on the title-page 1 running head in red and 1 in black fleurons printer's device in red on colophon; text clean unmarked. Red cloth front cover and spine labels titled in black with red typographic ornaments goldenrod end-papers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. SCARCE. GKK1020-013. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 36 copies this is number 19 designed by Roger Hilleary with the assistance of David Salinas handset Joanna types used for the text and Perpetua for display on a Columbian handpress printed on Wausau Vellum Opaque paper. Friedrich von Huegel 1852-1925 was the son of an Austrian baron who was a naturalist and diplomat. His mother was a Scot convert to Catholicism. The family moved from Florence to England in 1867 where Friedrich lived the rest of his life. He was a leading Roman Catholic philosopher of religion. Roger R. Hilleary was born in Los Angeles; his parents were California natives of 3rd maternal and 4th paternal generations. Hilleary graduated from Pomona College in 1953 and went to work for the U.S. Navy as a ballisticsian at the Naval Ordnance Test Station China Lake. In 1962 Hilleary transferred to the Computer Center at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey where he became involved in the Catholic Diocese of Monterey. Working with Ed Petko who gave Hilleary his first Chandler and Price pilot press and a reconditioned Columbian press Roger Hilleary printed and bound 22 books most of them miniatures. See: Bradbury 20th-Cent. US Miniature Books p. 90. 1 copy Worldcat. Monte Regio Press hardcover books