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Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. Wood blocks for The Hall Carbine affair: an essay in historiography.

Title: Wood blocks for The Hall Carbine affair: an essay in historiography. [ca. 1971]

ArchivalResource: 2 wood blocks ; 204 x 122 x 25 mm. or smaller

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612855643 View

Fritz Kredel Papers, 1935-1963

Title: Fritz Kredel Papers 1935-1963

The collection contains focuses on Kredel's career as an illustrator, and contains illustrative production materials including ink illustrations and sketches, ink and watercolor studies and sketches, lithographs, woodcuts, page proofs, and a press proof.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-709.xml View

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. Fritz Kredel papers, 1935-1963.

Title: Fritz Kredel papers, 1935-1963.

The collection includes sketches (ink and watercolor), studies (ink, ink and watercolor), illustrations (ink, some with separations), lithographs, woodcuts, a press proof, page proofs with illustrations, and a bookplate.

ArchivalResource: 15.02 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63286482 View

Macy, George. George Macy papers, 1916-1970.

Title: George Macy papers, 1916-1970.

Letters, documents, and printed materials documenting Macy's publishing career, including that relating to the Nonesuch Press, dating from 1941 to 1960. Included also are photographs, awards, and financial papers. The correspondents include many of Macy's close friends including Peter Beilenson, William Rose Benét, Clifton Fadiman, Christopher Fry, Lillian Gish, Alec Guinness, Fritz Kredel, Frederic and Florence March, Francis Meynell, Bruce Rogers, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, and Lynd Ward. Also, miscellaneous engravings, lithographs, and drawings.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. ( 4 volumes, 12 boxes, 1 oversize package & 1 map case drawer)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606938314 View

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991. Material by and about Warren Chappell inserted in books in his library [manuscript], 1964-1980.

Title: Material by and about Warren Chappell inserted in books in his library [manuscript], 1964-1980.

The collection contains a small notebook of random sketches by Boardman Robinson, ca. 1920; a sketchbook, 1924; a hand made book by Chappell titled "Letters of a brief--Mahler to AEH"; a Christmas card from Paul Koch, 1931; drawings for "Peter and the Wolf" and Tragedies of Shakespeare"; a printed and Chappell illustrated quote from Shakespeare; a mock-up of "They say stories"; and paste-ups of "The adventures of Don Quixote de la mancha," and "Associate collectors at the Alderman." The collection also contains correspondence laid in books in Chappell's library including letters from Charles Antin, C. Waller Barrett, Jacques Barzun, Klaus Blankherz, Max Dorn, Alfred Fairbank, Carolyn Hammer, Shirley Hazzard, Paul Horgan, Lyndon B. Johnson (brief thank you), Robert E. Knoll, Alfred A. Knopf, Fritz Kredell, Charles Locke, Lewis Mumford, Cynthia Ozick, Patricia Purinton, Roger D. Sell, Francis Steegmuller, Diantha C. Thorpe, John Updike, Joseph Wechsberg, Edgar and Margaret Wind, Jonathan Yardley, and Hermann Zapt. In addition there is a signed woodcut by Victor Hammer; a funeral program for Karl H. Klingspor; a N.Y. Times luncheon card; as seating list for Alfred A. Knopf's 90th birthday; and articles and obituaries on Alfred and Blanche Knopf.

ArchivalResource: 70 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647923316 View

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. Fritz Kredel papers, 1951-1957.

Title: Fritz Kredel papers, 1951-1957.

The collection consists of five items, including: catalog for 1951 exhibition of Fritz Kredel and Hermann Zapf at the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration; sixteen pages from Poems of Heinrich Heine, illustrated by Kredel, published 1957; Of rogues & roguery, a prospectus from The Gravesend Press, ca. 1950s; undated Christmas card printed for Fritz and Annie Kredel, with hand-colored botanical woodcut; undated pen-and-ink drawings on light card, three figures of women on one side in period dress, colored, young woman emerging from car on other side, with pencil note, Functionalism!

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54429026 View

Cheever, Lawrence Oakley, 1907-1974. Papers, 1931-1966.

Title: Papers, 1931-1966.

Correspondence, typescripts, clippings, proofs, bookplates, illustrations, Christmas cards, and other items, relating to Cheever's career and book collecting, bookplates, book illustrators, and Prairie Press. Corresondents include James Tinkham Babb, Fritz Eichenberg, Charles Honce, Elmer Jacobs, Rockwell Kent, Fritz Kredel, Raymond Lufkin, Dale Nichols, Vincent Starrett, Lynd Kendall Ward, and Edward Arthur Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 619 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28409550 View

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. Fritz Kredel and Frederick P. Todd working papers for Soldiers of the American Army, 1941.

Title: Fritz Kredel and Frederick P. Todd working papers for Soldiers of the American Army, 1941.

Working papers between Kredel, Todd, and H. Bittner and Company consisting of preliminary sketches by Kredel, holograph notes on dress, accoutrements, and stance by Todd, which comment on the sketches and cite research sources, a few holograph notes from Kredel querying Todd on specifics of dress, and 6 plate proofs carrying Todd's comments on coloring. Many of Todd's notes refer to intermediate sketches by Kredel which are not present here. Accompanied by a prospectus for the book, a corrected proof of the title page, and three typescript and holograph letters from Todd to Kredel and to Mr. Bittner concerning the illustrations.

ArchivalResource: 1.34 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702164511 View

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. AM Wegesrand. Wood blocks [realia] / Fritz Kredel.

Title: AM Wegesrand. Wood blocks [realia] / Fritz Kredel. 1961.

27 woodcuts cut on 23 wood blocks (24 woodcuts actually appear in the book). Cherry wood block in a hand-made cardboard slipcase with a proof in black ink on the outside.

ArchivalResource: 23 wood blocks : 20 x 15 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62163837 View

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. Photoengravings used in The Offenbacher Haggadah, 1927.

Title: Photoengravings used in The Offenbacher Haggadah, 1927.

Six copper photoengravings created from Fritz Kredel's original woodcuts, and used in printing illustrations and music in The Offenbacher Haggadah (Offenbach am Main: Guggenheim, 1927). The volume was edited by Siegfried Guggenheim and issued in an edition of 300. The plates here are for the text illustrations on pages 8, 28, 86, and 87, and for music on pages 41 and 75. Also included is one copper photoengraving which was not used in the volume; it contains the text on the burning bush, which appears on page 26, enclosed within a decorative border like that on page 95. Accompanied by two related articles, "Die sammlung Siegfried Guggenheim im Klingspor-Museum," by Hans Adolf Halbey (1972), and "A survey of twentieth century artistic Haggadot," by Leila Avrin (1987).

ArchivalResource: 7 copper photoengraving plates (in two boxes) ; 20 cm and smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/653230390 View

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Papers of Mark Twain [manuscript], 1862-1946, bulk 1872-1910.

Title: Papers of Mark Twain [manuscript], 1862-1946, bulk 1872-1910.

The collection contains manuscripts, personal correspondence, business correspondence and documents, illustrations, paintings and photographs. The manuscripts include "The jumping frog. In English. In French," six chapters of "A tramp abroad," one chapter of "The gilded age," prefaces to the English editions of "The innocents abroad" and "Roughing it," and several other shorter pieces including "At the shrine of St. Wagner," "Be good, be good, a poem," "Concerning the Jews," "The death-disk" "From the London Times of 1904" "The great revolution in Pitcairn," "How the chimney-sweep got the ear of the emperor," "The invallid's story," "The paradise of the rheumatics," "The regular toast," and "A true story," together with Susy Clemens's "Biography of Mark Twain" with his footnotes, proof sheets of his "Autobiography," a family journal from Australia, India, etc. [in a dummy book "Heroines of History"], and John Galsworthy's "Tribute" to Twain written in the greeting book of the Mark Twain Society. Family correspondence consists of cheerful letters to his wife Olivia Clemens and daughters Susy, Clara and Jean about his travels, lecture audiences, and acquaintances. There are also letters to his mother Jane L. Clemens, his brother Orion and family, his nephew Sam Moffett and his sister-in-law and her husband Susan Langdon and Theodore Crane. Business correspondence concerns Twain's emergence from the bankruptcy of Charles L. Webster Publishing Co. in which he was the majority stockholder. There are also book contracts, papers concerning his ill fated Paige typesetter investment, and papers concerning Edward H. House's unsuccessful suit against him over dramatization rights to "The prince and the pauper." There is professional correspondence with authors, editors, and publishers in the United States and England including Hjalmar Boyesen, George Washington Cable, William H. Claggett, John Galsworthy (to Cyril Clemens), William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine, George Bernard Shaw, and Charles Dudley Warner. Other correspondents include fellow journalists and miners in the U.S. West in the 1860s, voyagers on "The Quaker City," friends in Hartford, Ct., Hannibal, Mo., and Keokuk, Ia., members of the Players Club and other societies to which he belonged, friends from his travels, and his reading public. The collection also contains Clemens family real estate notebooks, n.d.; photographs of Twain, his family and friends; a portrait by Mrs. Edward A. Ward; a bronze bust by Albert Weinert, 1899; drawings, medallions and other art including illustrations of Twain's works.

ArchivalResource: 1175 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647831697 View

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991. Papers of Warren Chappell [manuscript], 1870-1994.

Title: Papers of Warren Chappell [manuscript], 1870-1994.

The collection consists chiefly of Chappell's illustrations and artwork for books, dust jackets, magazines, Book-of-the-Month Club and Borzoi Books, announcements, keepsakes, bookplates, and Christmas cards; and individual sketches and drawings by Chappell and other artists. The collection also contains personal and professional correspondence; printed material; some photographs; articles; talks and speeches by Chappell; exhibition catalogs featuring Chappell; reviews and notices for books illustrated or written by Chappell; examples of various typefaces; political cartoons; and various topical files. There are also manuscripts and drawings by Chappell's grandfather, John Taylor Chappell, and by Samuel Michael Chappell. Topical files contain articles by Chappell, Alfred Fairbank, Fritz Kredel, and Paul Standard, catalogs from exhibitions featuring Chappell's work, lectures by Chappell, reviews, and type showings. Other artists whose work appears include Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, George Cattermole, Gustav Eichenauer, Willi Harwerth, Rudolf Koch, Fritz Kredel, Allen Lewis, Charles Locke, Imre Reiner, Boardman Robinson, Rudolph Ruzicka, Ernest H. Shepard, Francesco Solimena, and Hugo Steiner. Artwork collected by Chappell includes pieces by Hieronymus Bang, Annibale Carracci, Sebastiano Conca, Salomon Koninck, Charles Parrocel, Giovanni Piazetta, and Francesco Solimena.

ArchivalResource: 3300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647883148 View

Fairbank, Alfred J. [Letters by modern calligraphers and typographers purchased from Martin Breslauer in 1966] [manuscript].

Title: [Letters by modern calligraphers and typographers purchased from Martin Breslauer in 1966] [manuscript]. between 1927-1951.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317827857 View

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991. Material by and about Warren Chappell inserted in books in his library, 1964-1980.

Title: Material by and about Warren Chappell inserted in books in his library, 1964-1980.

The collection contains a small notebook of random sketches by Boardman Robinson, ca. 1920; a sketchbook, 1924; a hand made book by Chappell titled "Letters of a brief--Mahler to AEH"; a Christmas card from Paul Koch, 1931; drawings for "Peter and the Wolf" and Tragedies of Shakespeare"; a printed and Chappell illustrated quote from Shakespeare; a mock-up of "The say stories"; and paste-ups of "The adventures of Don Quixote de la mancha," and "Associate collectors at the Alderman." The collection also contains correspondence laid in books in Chappell's library including letters from Charles Antin, C. Waller Barrett, Jacques Barzun, Klaus Blankherz, Max Dorn, Alfred Fairbank, Carolyn Hammer, Shirley Hazzard, Paul Horgan, Lyndon B. Johnson (brief thank you), Robert E. Knoll, Alfred A. Knopf, Fritz Kredell, Charles Locke, Lewis Mumford, Cynthia Ozick, Patricia Purinton, Roger D. Sell, Francis Steegmuller, Diantha C. Thorpe, John Updike, Joseph Wechsberg, Edgar and Margaret Wind, Jonathan Yardley, and Hermann Zapt. In addition there is a signed woodcut by Victor Hammer; a funeral program for Karl H. Klingspor; a N.Y. Times luncheon card; as seating list for Alfred A. Knopf's 90th birthday; and articles and obituaries on Alfred and Blanche Knopf.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49620612 View

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. Fritz Kredel collection, 1915-1973.

Title: Fritz Kredel collection, 1915-1973.

The Fritz Kredel Collection is composed the personal and artistic archives of Fritz Kredel, including over one hundred original wood blocks, proofs and published work, sketch books and drawings, project files, and correspondence with other artists such as Victor Hammer and Rudolf Koch. Realia, toys and military figures made by Kredel, as well as a nearly complete collection of works illustrated by the artist are also included. Published materials are represented with records in ORBIS.

ArchivalResource: 20 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702152425 View

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991. Material by and about Warren Chappell, 1937-1989.

Title: Material by and about Warren Chappell, 1937-1989.

The collection contains material by and about Warren Chappell found laid in or with books from the collection of Warren Chappell. Among the items are a catalog of books in the Chappell's library, 1978; sketches and pen-and-ink drawings by Chappell; an essay "Notes on 'A Nude' 1962" by Isabel Bishop; papers pertaining to the exhibit "The imprints of Gloomth"; Chappell's "Silver Jubilee Citation" from the Limited Editions Club, 1954; a bound volume containing original pen sketches for "Don Quixote"; a typographical trial "Romeo and Juliet" from a Shakespeare series, 1940; a mock-up of "Three for Jack"; two dummies for an undated Book of the Month Club publication; a sample binding done by Kingsport Press for Alfred A. Knopf; and a blank book in which four pages of Marryat's "Mr. Midshipman Easy" were pasted. Correspondents include Isabel Bishop, Bill Haynes, Julius Held, Alfred Knopf, Blanche Knopf, Fritz Kredel, Philip Reed, Leopold Tyrmand, Lynd Ward, Berthold Wolpe, and Hermann Zapf.

ArchivalResource: 75 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54456313 View

Press of the Woolly Whale. Visitors' book, 1928-1941.

Title: Visitors' book, 1928-1941.

Manuscript visitors' book of the Press of the Woolly Whale, recording visitors to the press from April 25, 1928, through March 28, 1941, who signed in a blank book with a gold-tooled calf binding by Gambinossi, New York. The volume contains approximately 600 signatures, 11 watercolors, 16 pen-and-ink drawings, 6 pencil sketches, 5 mounted photographs and other ephemera (including Guggenheim family bookplates). The first signatures in the volume are by type designer Frederic W. Goudy and his wife Bertha; they are followed by those of noted typographers, artists, printers, collectors, and bookmen, including Paul Bennett, Otto Bettmann, B. Dalton, John S. Fass, Gerhard Gerlach, Victor Hammer, Clarence Hornung, Mitchell Kennerley, Douglas McMurtrie, George Macy, F. Clifford Maggs, Hans Mardersteig, Stanley Morison, Will Ransom, Bruce Rogers, Rudolph Ruzicka, Georg Salter, Wilbur Macy Stone, Karl Shultheiss, Lynd Ward, Beatrice and Frederic Warde, Monroe Wheeler, and Laurence Wroth. Illustrations include drawings and watercolors by Valenti Angelo, Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, Warren Chappell, Ernest B. Dielman, Donald Greame-Kelley, Fritz Kredel, Wolfgang Lederer, Paul McPharlin, Charles E. Pont, Philip G. Reed, Alan Reeve, Alexander Stern, Paul Wescott, and Gustav Wolf, among others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([200] p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/652956318 View

T. M. Cleland Papers, 1880-1964, (bulk 1920-1963)

Title: T. M. Cleland Papers 1880-1964 (bulk 1920-1963)

Book designer and illustrator. Correspondence, drawings, and title pages and designs for books and advertisements.

ArchivalResource: 6,750 items; 27 containers; 11 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011089 View

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991. Papers of Warren Chappell, 1934-1973.

Title: Papers of Warren Chappell, 1934-1973.

The collection contains letters to Chappell from Fritz Kredel and Henri Jonquiéres. Kredel discusses his new Werkstatt, sends news of Rudolf Koch and regrets that it is currently impossible to come to America to see Chappell. Jonquiéres writes about his use of Chappell's Trajanus type-face for his book on Jacques Villon. The collection also contains a [preliminary titlepage?] for Koch's "Das Blumenbuch"; and a clipping discussing Villon.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55660673 View

KREDEL, FRITZ. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82630397 View

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973. Fritz Kredel and Frederick P. Todd working papers for Soldiers of the American Army, 1941.

Title: Fritz Kredel and Frederick P. Todd working papers for Soldiers of the American Army, 1941.

Working papers between Kredel, Todd, and H. Bittner and Company consisting of preliminary sketches by Kredel, holograph notes on dress, accoutrements, and stance by Todd, which comment on the sketches and cite research sources, a few holograph notes from Kredel querying Todd on specifics of dress, and 6 plate proofs carrying Todd's comments on coloring. Many of Todd's notes refer to intermediate sketches by Kredel which are not present here. Accompanied by a prospectus for the book, a corrected proof of the title page, and three typescript and holograph letters from Todd to Kredel and to Mr. Bittner concerning the illustrations.

ArchivalResource: 1.34 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78467530 View

Miscellaneous drawings for book illustration, [before 1744]-1930s.

Title: Miscellaneous drawings for book illustration, [before 1744]-1930s.

Includes illustrations by Richard Corbould, Gustave Doré, William MakepeaceThackeray, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01341/catalog View

Wolpe, Berthold,. Deutsche Kinderlieder : manuscript, 1932.

Title: Deutsche Kinderlieder : manuscript, 1932.

23 nursery rhymes, one per page or 2 pages, written in black in an uncial hand and illustrated in watercolor.

ArchivalResource: 14 leaves, bound : ill. ; 14 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612834751 View

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991. Papers of Warren Chappell, 1932, 1946, 1975-1983.

Title: Papers of Warren Chappell, 1932, 1946, 1975-1983.

The papers contain correspondence and design material, 1980-1981 for a Book-of-the-month Club edition of All the King's Men, including 2 versions of an introduction by Robert Penn Warren; correspondence, 1932, 1978-1980, with William Addison Dwiggins, Isabel Bishop, Paul Horgan, Vincent Torre, John Updike and Edward Wagenknecht chiefly about type and book design and Dwiggins. Also includes a speech Working with [Rudolph] Koch; design material 1980, for the University of Virginia Library Associates's Willa Cather keepsake; letters, 1983, from Julius Samuel Held, enclosing an early printing specimen, and copies of Van de Venne paintings similar to a Chappell sketch; illustrated letters, 1983, to Fredson Thayer Bowers and Nancy Hale about Louis Morris Starr and the Bowers' book Leon Kroll, a spoken memoir; and photographs of Chappell, Rudolph Kock, and Fritz Kredel.

ArchivalResource: 74 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793516 View

Press of the Woolly Whale. Press of the Woolly Whale collection, 1928-1972 (inclusive), 1928-1941 (bulk)

Title: Press of the Woolly Whale collection, 1928-1972 (inclusive), 1928-1941 (bulk)

The collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, mailing labels, certificates, and programs, among other items, most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. Series I, Publications and Production Files, is arranged according to David Pankow's chronological bibliography in Melbert B. Cary, Jr. and the Press of the Woolly Whale (Rochester, 2002). Accompanying some of the titles are production files kept by George Van Vechten Jr., the printer at the Press of the Woolly Whale. These files may include original and carbon typescripts, paper samples, title page designs, dummies, page proofs, corrected galleys, notes, receipts, and some correspondence with Cary, Frederic Goudy, and others. Some files also contain original drawings by Alban B. Butler, Warren Chappell, W. A. Dwiggins, and Fritz Kredel, and a set of stencils used by Dwiggins. Filed at the end of the series is a range of ephemera printed for the American Institute of Graphic Arts and National Orchestral Association. Series II, Other Papers, contains copies of the Buffalo and Rochester exhibition catalogs, obituaries for George Van Vechten Jr., a holiday card from Paul Wescott with a trade sign design for the press, and notes made by Mary Flagler Cary about press publications.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/655778524 View

Cary, Melbert B. (Melbert Brinckerhoff), 1892-1941. Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection, 1895-1986.

Title: Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection, 1895-1986.

The collection consists of material by and about Melbert B. Cary Jr., including offprints of writings about him and his press and by him on type and playing cards from American and German journals (1928-1938), and information about his playing card collection in the Yale University Library (1937-1986). Also included are Cary's copies of Yale alumni books with addresses of his classmates (1926 and 1936), photographs of him and him with his mother Julia Metcalf Cary, a get-well card designed by Fritz Kredel and signed by members of the Typophiles (1941), and a letter of introduction for Hans Alexander Müller to Arthur W. Rushmore (1937). Box 2 contains writings by Cary's father, Melbert B. Cary Sr., on the Connecticut state constitution (1895-1901).

ArchivalResource: 0.63 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746849993 View