A131. Glen Dawson
Title
A131. Glen Dawson
Creator
Thomas, Peter and Donna
Description
41 x 75 mm (1 5/8” x 2 15/16”), 14-page accordion, 60 copies.
Binding: Simple accordion; covers are blue “skiver” leather over boards. Title stamped in gold on cover. Held by a patterned sleeve made of green and purple paste paper made by Claire Maziarczyk. Title on label on sleeve. Paper: White, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Handset Centaur and News Gothic; The decades are printed with a rainbow roll. Notes: Five special copies were planned but not produced. Seven copies in the edition were made for friends of Glen Dawson.
“Glen was our mentor, as important to our business as Everson was to our aesthetic. This book was made in his honor. By the time we made this book we were at the point in our artistic development where we wanted to make every book a work of art. Glen asked, ‘Why don’t you make it a fine little traditional book like the ones you made when we first met?’ He was an astute business man, still giving us advice at 100. If we had taken his advice we probably would have sold all the copies by now.
It is a colorful and typographically stunning time line of the life of Glen Dawson. Dawson was a pioneer mountaineer, claiming one first ascent of Mt. Whitney in the 1930s. He was also a preeminent bookseller, partners with his brother Muir in Los Angeles’ Dawson’s Bookshop. Perhaps most pertinent, he was a founding member of the miniature book society and publisher of over 100 miniature books.”
Binding: Simple accordion; covers are blue “skiver” leather over boards. Title stamped in gold on cover. Held by a patterned sleeve made of green and purple paste paper made by Claire Maziarczyk. Title on label on sleeve. Paper: White, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Handset Centaur and News Gothic; The decades are printed with a rainbow roll. Notes: Five special copies were planned but not produced. Seven copies in the edition were made for friends of Glen Dawson.
“Glen was our mentor, as important to our business as Everson was to our aesthetic. This book was made in his honor. By the time we made this book we were at the point in our artistic development where we wanted to make every book a work of art. Glen asked, ‘Why don’t you make it a fine little traditional book like the ones you made when we first met?’ He was an astute business man, still giving us advice at 100. If we had taken his advice we probably would have sold all the copies by now.
It is a colorful and typographically stunning time line of the life of Glen Dawson. Dawson was a pioneer mountaineer, claiming one first ascent of Mt. Whitney in the 1930s. He was also a preeminent bookseller, partners with his brother Muir in Los Angeles’ Dawson’s Bookshop. Perhaps most pertinent, he was a founding member of the miniature book society and publisher of over 100 miniature books.”
Publisher
Santa Cruz, California: Peter & Donna Thomas
Date
2008
Language
English
Files
Collection
Appears in Exhibits
Citation
Thomas, Peter and Donna, “A131. Glen Dawson,” Digital Exhibits - UWM Libraries Special Collections, accessed November 16, 2024, https://web.uwm.edu/lib-omeka-spc2/items/show/581.