A Natural History of The Typestickers of Los Angeles. Compiled from the Letters of Wm. M. Cheney
1960SFK519-005Los Angeles CA: The Rounce & Coffin Club 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of this volume commemorating the work of William Cheney a printer who worked in Dawson's Book Shop. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 6 xi 62 pp. Half-title title page in red and black inks foreword by H. Richard Archer titled "William M. Cheney" monochrome photographs of Cheney throughout; text clean unmarked. Quarter black cloth over olive green boards spine titled in gilt in original white paper dust jacket titled in black on spine of jacket in archival mylar olive green endpapers; binding square and tight very light soiling and toning with small chips at extremities of jacket. Bookplate of Jackson Burke on front pastedown. Muir Dawson's copy: notation in Muir Dawson's hand "With the 5 errata slips printed by Cheney" but these errata slips are no longer present. SFK519-005. Very Good. The volume includes H. Richard Archer's foreword originally published in the Book Club of California Quarterly News Letter Summer 1957 Vol. XXII pp. 62-5. In the foreword Archer says that Cheney's âcontribution to the private press movement of the mid-twentieth century may be slight but his position in it is assured." PROVENANCE: Bookplate on the front pastedown of type and book designer Jackson Burke 1908-1975 who designed several type faces and acted as the Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler Linotype from 1949-1963. The provenance in a lineage of California typophiles indicates Cheney's significant impact on private press printing in California and beyond. The Rounce & Coffin Club hardcover books
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