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Published by Printed by John Henry Nash, San Francisco, 1935
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition, 1/650. [ii]-xx+[1]-20pp. Quarto [28 cm] 1/4 teal cloth over teal boards with a paper label on the backstrip. In blank teal dust jacket. Near fine/Near fine. Decorative header art by William F. Rauschnabel. This work was printed in a limitation of 650 unnumbered 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 at the University of Oregon.