Paul Elder & Company published about 350 titles between 1903 and 1917. The best volumes were designed and printed by John Henry Nash, who was director of the Tomoye Press from 1903-11.
Highlights of this period include:
- Yosemite Legends, by Bertha Smith
- The Simple Home, by Charles Keeler
- The Palace of Fine Arts and Lagoon, by Bernard Maybeck
- The House That Jack Built, by Robert Wilson Hyde
- The Raven and The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe
- Western Classics series
I’d like to add “The Complete Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1906” by Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford and Addison Mizner.
Paul Elder and Company Publishers, San Francisco.
Elder published a series of Cynic’s calendars from 1903 until 1909, plus a “revived” calendar in 1917. They sold fairly well. I’ll do a weekly spotlight on the Cynic’s calendars soon.