18th century French vignettes collected by Philip Hofer

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18th century French vignettes collected by Philip Hofer

1737-1811

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99153752454603941/catalog

Collection of printed vignettes acquired by Philip Hofer, by various artists and arranged in numbered "feuilles"; vignettes are attached in sets to paper backing. Also with one full-size print by C. N. Cochin, and a manuscript list of the items in the sets showing artist, brief title, and work for which the item was created.

.1 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...