MEMOIRS OF EDWARD BOSQUI.
Oakland: Holmes Book Co., 1952. Limited Edition. . Original charcoal-gray cloth and fleur-de-lys patterned boards, quarto (7.25 x 10 inches), xvii, (181) pp., printed paper spine label. 6 full-page plates including color lithograph frontispiece reproduced from Bosqui's "Grapes & Grape Vines of California." Slight fading to cloth, owner name to front free endpaper, else very good. . Item #20170
Edward Bosqui (1832-1917) was the Canadian artist and printer who emigrated to San Francisco in 1850 to found the Bosqui Engraving and Printing Company. The firm became the pre-eminent printing house on the West Coast. Bosqui's crowning achievment was the publication in 1877 of "Grapes & Grape Vines of California," a series of 10 large "oleograph" plates now exceedingly rare. Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Press Bibliography #526.
Price: $225.00