He was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada and left school at sixteen to apprentice as a printer.
In 1916, Nash started his own press, and his efforts helped establish San Francisco as a center of fine printing.
[2] In titling his 1928 book about Nash, Edward F. O'Day went so far as to dub him "The Aldus of San Francisco."
Robert D. Harlan, John Henry Nash: A Biography of a Career (1970).
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