An Original Leaf from Francisco Palou's Life of the Venerable Father Junipero Serra, 1787
first edition
1958 · San Francisco
by [Palou, Francisco]
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1958 First edition. One of 177 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco as a keepsake of their joint meeting with the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. Text by David Magee. Tall folio (15¼x10¼ inches). 16pp. Printed on rectos only. Title in red and black. Opening initial of text in red and gold. Original leaf and facsimile page within red rules. Handset Janson type on English handmade paper. Original cream stiff wrappers, center sewn, title in gold on red label on front cover. Spine area slightly darkened, but a fine and clean copy. The tipped-in leaf is from the first edition of Palou's Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra (1787), the first and most authoritative life of the founding father of the California missions. [Grabhorn: 598].. (Inventory #: 8254)