San Francisco: H. Keller & Co. / (Women's Print, 424 Montg'y St.), 1878.
Price: $575.00
Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth gilt. Front hing e restored a little amateurishly, but not unsightly, corners a little bumped, else a nice, very good copy. Verse, including an elegy to a deceased classmate from the Granville Female College (of Granville, Ohio, Class of 1870). A very attractive example of this California imprint, the product of one of San Francisco's earliest women-run print shops. In 1868 Agnes Peterson founded the Women’s Co-Operative Printing Union (WCPU), it was later taken over and run by Lizzie G. Richmond, who relocated printing operations permanently to Montgomery Street. The WCPU was an extremely important marker in the history of women printers as it was operated by women and staffed primarily with women. Levenson, *Women in Printing* 72.
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