Patience and her garden.
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1913. Pamphlet. [6], 7, [3] pp., frontispiece plate, illustration, wraps. Bound in green paper with deckled edges, toned along the edges; title and decorative illustration letterpress printed on the cover, in a border printed in gold ink. Text pages are laid paper with deckled edges.
A short work of prose in which the female personification of patience is denied the pleasure of enjoying her garden by the drudgery of housework (caring for sick children, sewing clothes). Printed at the Tomoye Press in 1913, a couple of years after severe disagreements between John Henry Nash and Paul Elder.
Cat.No: 298651
Price: $20.00
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1910S,
Book arts, bookbinding,
Fine Printing, Fine Press,
Gardens; Botany,
San Francisco,
Women
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