[Rarebooks] FS: Ward Ritchie's "Job Printing in California" w/4 19th c. examples (including 1 from L. A.)

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(PRINTING HISTORY) Ritchie, Ward. JOB PRINTING IN CALIFORNIA. With Four Original Examples of Early California Printing. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson. 1955. Sm. 8vo. (2),32,(2)pp. With 4 mounted specimens of early California job printing (dated 1857-1864). The samples include a County of Los Angeles real estate tax payment receipt dated 1857, a stock certificate of the Antelope Silver Mining Company dated 1864, with two 25¢ revenue stamps, a San Francisco merchant's bill dated 1858, and a San Francisco bank check from 1857. Edition limited to 200 copies printed by Wm. M. Cheney. Tan cloth stamped in red & brown.             $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
"Early California Travel Series XXVI." This is one of the very few copies to have an original example of job printing from Los Angeles.

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