Printed blue wrappers.
1939.] · [Los Angeles:
by [ Ritchie, Ward, printer ]
[Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1939.] One of seventy-five copies designed and printed by the Ward Ritchie press for presentation to donors. Printed blue wrappers. . Octavo. Some dampstaining to wrappers. Very good. Alice Millard (1873 – 1938) was a Chicago-born rare book dealer and promoter of culture in the Arroyo Seco region of Los Angeles. While in Chicago, she visited A.C. McClurg's bookstore, looking for a book on William Morris. While there she met George Millard, her future husband, who worked in the Rare Book Department. In 1906, the Millards commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house in Chicago for them, now called the George Madison Millard House. The Millards moved to Pasadena, California after George's retirement and converted a bungalow on Huntington Drive into a book salon. After George's death, Alice again commissioned Wright to design another home, which was called "La Miniatura" (The Little Museum). It contained fine pictures, china, silver, sculpture, and many other items, including her husband's printed books and manuscripts. She left the collection to the Huntington Library. Millard influenced a later generation of booksellers and collectors including Estelle Doheny, William Andrews Clark, Jake Zeitlin, and Ward Ritchie.
(Inventory #: 17656)