George Clymer and the Columbian Press

San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Series: Typophile Chapbook, No. XXIII. LIMITED EDITION of 770 copies, this is 1 of 420 copies printed for the Typophiles, designed and printed by Taylor & Taylor of San Francisco, binding by J. F. Tapley Co. 12mo. 7 1/4 x 4 11/16 inches. (xiv), 60, [2] pp. Half-title, eagle design in slate blue on the title page, 8 plates, 6 decorations taken from ornamented castings of various Columbian presses, slate blue printer's device on colophon; text clean, unmarked. Decorative blue cloth, gilt-titled spine, translucent paper dust jacket; binding square and tight, jacket toned, chipped. Muir Dawson's copy without distinguishing mark. SFK519-1018. Very Good. In 1958 Taylor & Taylor owned one of only three known Columbian hand-presses in the United States. A very specialized piece of scholarship and research by Jacob Kainen, an American painter, printmaker, and art historian who served as Curator of the Division of Graphic Arts, US National Museum. One of the Fifty Books of the Year and included in the Exhibition of Western Books of the Rounce & Coffin Club. REFERENCE: Rathe, Bibliography of the Typophile Chapbooks, No. 23. See: Magee, The Hundredth Book, No. 75. (Inventory #: SFK519-1018)