Early Printing in California from Its Beginning in the Mexican Territory to Statehood...

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, 142pp. 16 plates of samples; frontis portrait. Green and black two-tone cloth, red morocco spine label. A very fine copy. An important and scholarly study on printing in California from the Mexican period (1821) to statehood, September 9, 1850. Includes a bibliography of imprints, list of newspapers, list of presses, and bibliographic sources. The classic reference.Original prospectus laid in. [BCC: 94; Grabhorn: 582]..