THE STANFORD QUAD, 1894 Volume I

Stanford's very first published annual (yearbook). From the Editorial Preface - "It combines in one volume a complete record of University affairs, literary, social, and athletic, connected by the best artistic sense of the University. This publication has been christened The Stanford Quad (the plan on which the University is built) . In publishing the first volume of The Stanford Quad, the editors have labored under many disadvantages . but present a happy remembrance of the peculiar and unique incidents of the first years at Stanford."

Published by Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Printed by H.S. Crocker Company, San Francisco, Edited by the Junior Class of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, A. Lewis Jr., Editor in Chief, 1894. First edition, first printing. Hardbound in half Cardinal red cloth over cream color paper boards, embossed gilt printing on the front cover and spine, with red printed logo design on the front cover, beveled edges, 9.5"x 7.25", 249 numbered pages plus 45 pages of advertisements. Provenance of 1898 Stanford graduate, Ralph B. Hubbard, engineering, member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, with his name penned to the ffep. GOOD CONDITION: complete as issued, the covers have edgewear, some soiling and toning, the red cloth is splitting 3" at the front spine fold but overall the covers remain solid and the gilt is bright. Internally, the front hinge is cracked but holding, the pages have light foxing, small staining and light signs of use and wear, a few signatures are pulling but remain bound in, overall this original 1894 Stanford annual remains tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Contents include: a romantic portrait of the late Leland Stanford, Jr. (the school's namesake), biography and portrait of President David Starr Jordan, Board of Trustees, Faculty, Assistants, Lecturers, Officers, Committees, Graduates, Student Body Officers, Class Officers, Pioneer Class photo, Fraternity members, tribute poem to Senator Stanford, photographs of the football team, baseball team, and track team, track records, biography of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Literary Societies, "Sequoia" and "Daily Palo Alto" staff, miniature reprint of "Daily Palo Alto" Vol. 1-No. 1 cover, photographs of the Quad staff, Glee club, and Mandolin club, Founders Day program, University calendar, statistics of student origins, extension lecture titles, short stories, music, songs, poems, drawings, photographs, and wonderfully illustrated contemporary ads from local and San Francisco businesses including clothiers, typewriters, stables, hatters, stationary shops, guns, cigarettes, railways, hotels, optometrists, booksellers, and many more.