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Memoirs of Edward Bosqui 1/350 grabhorn 1952

Title: Memoirs of Edward Bosqui
Author: Bosqui, Edward
Description: Foreword by Harold C. Holmes. Introduction by Henry R. Wagner. Facsimiles, color frontispiece. Cloth-backed patterned boards, paper spine label (one extra spine label laid in). 1 of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Second Edition.Bosqui worked briefly at a banking firm in 1850 before taking off for the mines, returning shortly to sedentary city life before returning east in 1853. He came back to California to found one of California's most famous nineteenth century printing, bookbinding and engraving establishments. The 1904 first edition, limited to 50 copies, is extremely scarce. (Cowan p.64); Howes B623.
Heading: Place Published: Oakland
Publisher: Holmes Book Company
Date Published: 1952