Recollections Of The Grabhorn Press And Comments On Some Bay Area Fine Printers Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Recollections of the Grabhorn Press, And, Comments on Some Bay Area Fine Printers Edwin Grabhorn, whose Grabhorn Press was for many years one of the most renowned printing enterprises of the Western world, began his career as a music printer in an uncle's shop in Indianapolis. As he recounts in this interview, his first experience on the Pacific Coast was in Seattle, where as a young man he worked as a music printer, then turned to general printing and went into business for himself briefly. There he first became acquainted with the work of Frederic W. Goudy, which was to become a major influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.