Cornelius Cole: California Pioneer and Uinted States Senator. A Study in Personality and Achievements Bearing Upon the Growth of the Commonwealth

San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1929. First Edition. 379pp. Quarto [27 cm] Marbled boards with a leather gilt stamped label on the backstrip. Very good. Complete with fold-out and plates. This edition was limited to 250 copies. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was a renowned fine printer who spent the majority of his career in the San Francisco area, founding the Twentieth Century Press with Bruce Brough, which was renamed Tomoye Press when Paul Elder was made a partner. Later Nash founded his own eponymous printing venture, this is where he cemented legacy as one of the great American printers. Later in his life he would teach printing and typography (truncated) at the University of Oregon. (Inventory #: 8324)