Tea in China and Legends of Monkeys Gathering Tea
[San Francisco]: [The Press in Tuscany Alley], 1978. Ukers, William Harrison; Breton, Jean Baptiste
Tea in China and Legends of Monkeys Gathering Tea [San Francisco]: [The Press in Tuscany Alley], [1978]. 9.75” x 6.5”, 11 pp. plus colophon.
Stapled green thin card wrappers, deckled edges. Moderate creasing to lower quarter throughout. Good condition.
A lovely small press rendition of a selection of works on coffee and tea. This, one of 350 copies printed in San Francisco and “presented to the members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles by Joseph M. Bransten for the joint meeting in Los Angeles, September 1978.”
An introduction revealed that Bransten, leader of “MJB Co., the San Francisco coffee and tea firm, presented his collection of over one hundred books on the history and sociology of coffee and tea to The Bancroft Library.” Among his volumes were “All About Tea” by William Harrison Ukers (New York, 1935) and “China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures” by Jean Baptiste Breton de la Martiniere (London, 1824). This pamphlet reprinted selections from those two works, along with the “imaginative picture of remarkable terrain [that] appears in Breton’s book.”
Per a collection at CSU Northridge: “The Zamorano Club is Southern California's oldest organization of bibliophiles and manuscript collectors. The Roxburghe Club was formed in San Francisco on April 3, 1928, and was named in honor of the original Roxburghe Club of England. The purpose of the clubs is to further the love of fine printing, and books in general.”
OCLC shows eight holdings. Good / None. Item #1726
Price: $75.00