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Windgate Press Announces publication of San Francisco Early Prints: 1848-1900, a limited edition hard-case portfolio containing twenty exquisite San Francisco fine-art lithographs.

San Francisco's dramatic topography has challenged and inspired artists from the gold rush onward. The earliest way of conveying San Francisco's imagery to a wide audience was through prints; lithographs, etchings, and engravings. Never produced in large numbers by today's standard, these prints are now scarce, some almost unobtainable, and all highly collectable.

Original prints selected for the portfolio are from the California State Library and the Kathleen Manning Collection. Accompanying the plates is an illustrated booklet by Kathleen Manning, owner of Manning's Books & Prints Old & Rare in Pacifica, president of the San Francisco History Association and member of the American Historical Print Collectors Society. Manning's text, with twenty additional rare San Francisco images, explains in lay terms the printmaking methods employed during and after the Gold Rush, and identifies the artists and publishers involved in making the original prints.