[Cobden-Sanderson, Anne] Souvenir: Edwin and Robert Grabhorn to Anne Cobden-Sanderson. San Franciscot, June 26th at Coppa's Restaurant

Author: Grabhorn, Edwin and Robert
Title: [Cobden-Sanderson, Anne] Souvenir: Edwin and Robert Grabhorn to Anne Cobden-Sanderson. San Franciscot, June 26th at Coppa's Restaurant
Publication: San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1926
Edition: First edition

Description: First edition. Original blue printed wrappers with gilt printed lettering on cover. One of 15 Copies printed for the occasion, sewn and laid in blue paper wrappers, later 25 more copies were issued in boards. [6] pp. plus 4 preliminary and ending blank leaves. Wrappers. 8vo. (8 1/2 x 5 3/4). SIGNED at the end by the participants: Charles Erskine Scott Wood (who wrote the text), Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Edwin Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn, Albert M. Bender, Henry H. Taylor, Katharine Field Ehrgott, and J. J. Neuberger. Also signed in pencil on first blank page by fine printer Helen Gentry who worked for the Grabhorns at the time. The wrappers are separated at spine and slightly worn at edges, else contents fine. Anne Cobden-Sanderson (1853- 1926), distinguished British feminist who went to jail in London for her suffragist activities in the early 1900's, was married to the famed fine press printer, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922). Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a noted San Francisco writer and anarchist; Albert M. Bender (1866-1941) was a Jewish philanthropist in San Francisco noted for his support of the arts; Henry H. Taylor was a fine printer of the firm Taylor & Taylor in San Francisco; Katharine Field Ehrgott was the daughter by a previous marriage of feminist Sara Bard Field Ehrgott (1882-1974), who lived with Charles Erskine Scott Wood. GRABHORN PRESS 83.

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