Process blocks commissioned or owned by Philip Hofer

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Process blocks commissioned or owned by Philip Hofer

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Five process or halftone printing blocks, at least one produced by the firm Gaytone, owned by and/or commissioned by book collector and Harvard curator, Philip Hofer.

.08 linear feet

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...