The Californian Volume One Facsimile Reproductions of Thirty-Eight Numbers, a Prospectus, and Various Extras and Proclamations, Printed At Monterey between August 15, 1846 and May 6, 1847
(San Francisco): John Howell - Books, 1971. Hardcover. Folio. Pp. [12], xvii, 164. Frontis. portrait of Walter Cotton. Facsimile reproductions of "The Californian" comprise the substance of the book. Index. Bound in vibrant red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover, along with a printing tableau stamped in black, and gilt lettering on spine. Slight smudge the size of a chickpea on the front fore-edge, else Fine. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kenney and Charles R. Wood. Near Fine. Item #3450
"The Californian" was a vital, early Alta California imprint, the first California newspaper as documented by Henry Wagner in "California Imprints" (Berkeley, 1922). Later the press was sent from Monterey to San Francisco, and used in the production of "The Star," that city's first newspaper.
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