Item #902486 The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher. Victor H. Fourgeaud, Carroll D. Hall, Prolegomenon, sic.
The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher
The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher
The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher
The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher
The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher
The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher

The First Californiac: Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written By Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco’s First Newspaper, Of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher

San Francisco: The Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1942.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.

Allen Press Book #2. Limited Edition of two hundred and twenty five copies. Pen and ink drawings by Lawrence E. Walker. Designed, hand-set, and printed by Lewis & Dorothy Allen. The First Californiac was the first of many books hand-set in Bulmer types on Worth Charta. D. B. Updike, in his Printing Types, states that Bulmer is one of the most valuable contributions to good book fonts. 

The work is a reprint of Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud's article Prospects of California published in the April 1, 1848 issue of The California Star, San Francisco's first newspaper. Fourgeaud discusses the resources, chiefly mineral, of the state and writes: “California has been misrepresented by some but the time is at hand when proper justice will be done to this fair region of the globe." Lewis Allen has commented on the work in the press's bibliography: "California present (1949) and future is pictured on a level above that of Paradise, a stirring example of the provincial panegyrist."

Item #902486

6-1/8 x 7-1/8", half calf, 3 raised bands, deckled fore-edge, green decorated paper over boards with illustration on front cover, vi, 44pp, frontis. portrait.

Bit of wear to spine, toning to paper over boards, toning to endpaper gutters and edges of leaves, toning to title page and colophon from enclosed clipping, very good.

Price: $125.00

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