Pasadena, CA: (The Castle Press), 1997.
Miniature Book. 3 x 2 1/2 inches. [vi], 14, [4] pp. Half-title, color frontispiece, red fleuron graces the title page, red typographic ornaments in the text, 2 illustrations (1 black-and-white, 1 color); text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped red cloth, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. SIGNED by George Kinney on the colophon. KGK523-002. Fine.
LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies, presented by Bernard L. Fontana, George Kinney and Tony Kroll. Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo was founded in 1720 and is named for Saint Joseph and the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, the governor of the Province of Coahuila and Texas at the time. It was built on the banks of the San Antonio River a few miles south of an earlier mission, Mission San Antonio de Valero, present day the Alamo. It was found was Franciscan missionary Father Antonio Margil de Jesus. Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo is an active parish today.
Bernard Fontana was a renowned authority on the history and anthropology of the Southwest. He worked at the University of Arizona as a lecturer in the anthropology department, an ethnologist at the Arizona State Museum, and a field historian in the library.
REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th Cent. US Miniature Books, No. 1098.
Title: A Miniature History of Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
Edition: LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies
Created: 1997
Country of Origin: United States
Location Published: Pasadena, CA, The Castle Press: 1997
Binding: Gilt-stamped red cloth, marbled end-papers
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None, as issued
Inscription: SIGNED by George Kinney on the colophon
Size: Miniature Book. 3 x 2 1/2 inches
Type: Miniature Book
Categories: History, Miniature Book, Fine Press
Seller ID: KGK523-002
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