Published by A. L. Bancroft & Co., Printers, 721 Market St, (San Francisco), 1877
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st printing. Single piece of silk, printed both sides. Illustration of the Baldwin Hotel to advert side. 8-9/16" x 5-1/4" An early San Francisco theater program, printed on silk. A. L. Bancroft was the brother of noted historian and collector Hubert Howe Bancroft, who donated his library to UCLA and for which the Bancroft Library is named. H. H. Bancroft began his own publishing house which in 1868 he resigned from in favor of his brother. No institutional holdings found on OCLC. Rare. Fraying to edges of cloth, light yellow staining (no hinderance to text) to program side. Light creasing to bottom right edge. Otherwise, an About VG example. Program and rear advert printed in black ink to white silk cloth. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.