John Henry Nash

John Henry Nash (1871–1947) was a fine printer.

Life He was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada and left school at sixteen to apprentice as a printer. In 1895, he arrived in San Francisco, where he was to develop his reputation. With Bruce Brough he founded the Twentieth Century Press. Elder became a partner in Twentieth Century Press, which was renamed Tomoye Press, and Nash became a partner in the newly formed Paul Elder & Company. Nash designed and typeset many of Elder's most enduring publications. In 1943, he returned to Berkeley, California, where he died in 1947.

Selected bibliography Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters (1923). With illustrations by Howard Whitford Willard.

Robert D. Harlan, John Henry Nash: A Biography of a Career (1970).

Papers

The John Henry Nash papers reside at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Works published by John Henry Nash contained in the Bender Collection at the Library of Trinity College Dublin.