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Title: Twelve works relating to the Grabhorn Press Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 12 volumes. Various bindings and limitations. First Editions. A selection of volumes relating to San Francisco's revered Grabhorn Press. With catalogues, histories, tributes, bibliographies, etc. Some titles printed by Grabhorn, others by a variety of other fine presses. Also includes two volumes on the work of Jane Grabhorn, wife of Robert Grabhorn. and the founder of the Jumbo and Colt Presses. Essential works on the history of the fine press in San Francisco. Includes: Bosqui, Edward. Memoirs of Edward Bosqui. Illustrated with color frontispiece and from black & white photographs. (4to) black and patterned cloth, paper spine label. Gift inscription on front pastedown. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Oakland, California: Holmes Book Company, 1952. Bury, Richard de. Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham. With decorations and initials by Donald McKay Printed in red and black in two columns. (Folio), original cloth-backed boards with de Bury's arms on front cover. Some rubbing to extremities. No. 16 of 250 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. [San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1925]. De Vinne, Theodore L. The Plantin-Moretus Museum: A Printer's Paradise. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Color frontispiece of Plantin. Limp vellum gilt. Unnumbered copy matching the issue of 450 copies. [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1929. Grabhorn, Edwin. Some Remarks on the Printed Book. Papered boards with paper cover label. San Mateo, California: The Quercus Press, 1948. The Grabhorn Press: A Catalogue of Imprints in the Collection of Henry R. Wagner Cloth and boards, dust jacket. One of 250 copies. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1938. Grabhorn, Jane. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Typographic Work of Jane Grabhorn. (8vo) decorative wrappers with paper label. One of 500 copies. [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1956. Grabhorn, Jane. The Compleat Jane Grabhorn: A Hodge-Podge of Typographical Ephemera, Three Complete Books, Broadsides, Invitations: Greetings, Place Cards, &c. Various illustrations, including many tipped-in folding ephemeral items. (4to) original linen-backed decorative boards. One of 400 copies. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1968. Hart, James D. A Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn & the Grabhorn Press. Boards with paper label, plain dust jacket. One of 1000 copies. Friends of the San Francisco Library, 1969. Lewis, Oscar. The Grabhorn Press: A Moving Tale. (4to), decorative wrappers. One of 120 copies designed and printed by Kathi and Don Fleming for the 1982 joint meeting of The Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Orinda: [The Press of the Golden Key],1982. Magee, David. Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn 1917-1960: Two Gentlemen From Indiana Now Resident in California.(4to), decorative wrappers. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1961. Magee, David. Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn 1917-1960: Two Gentlemen From Indiana Now Resident in California. Quarter cloth and decorative boards, spine label, plain paper jacket. One of 250 copies. 1961. Wentz, Roby. The Grabhorn Press: A Biography. Quarter linen and papered boards, gilt spine, plain paper dust jacket. Prospectus laid in.. One of 750 copies printed by the Grace Hoper Press. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1981. Lot Amendments Condition: Varying degrees of light wear; all volumes very good or better. Item number: 283512