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Mary Grabhorn
Mary's Christmas
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[San Francisco], [Grabhorn Press], [December, 1947]
17" x 12" broadside. Printed on handmade paper in red Narcisss and Caslon type, with black illustrations. Signed in print at end: Mary Grabhorn, alias Barnacle Bill, Idle Fritz, Farmer MacGregor, George Bungle. The date is taken from a penciled statement on the verso "Grabhorn Press/Dawsons/Dec, '47". Light wear; else a fine copy of a scarce Grabhorn item. (Not in Grabhorn Bibliography).
A Christmas greeting with four lines of verse about a nasty soup.
Mary Grabhorn, daughter of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, was one of the press's most prolific illustrators, creating color woodcuts at a fairly young age for all nine of the Grabhorn Press Shakespeare folios and a French illuminated Book of Hours. Grabhorn Press printed an invitation to one of her birthday parties as well as a Christmas greeting for her, and both are held at the Book Club of California.
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