W. A. Dwiggins design ephemera collected by Philip Hofer

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W. A. Dwiggins design ephemera collected by Philip Hofer

1930-1950

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou03225/catalog

Collection includes proofs, drawings, and correspondence relating to the publications "WAD to RR: A Letter about Designing Type", "Towards a Reform of the Paper Currency, Particularly in Point of its Design" for the Limited Editions Club, and other projects for Lakeside Press and Random House.

.3 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...