Fine Press Printing Ephemera Collection 1898-2010 1924-1948

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Fine Press Printing Ephemera Collection 1898-2010 1924-1948

Consists of book prospectuses, invitations, greeting cards, and other items printed by private and small presses in the United States, and various countries throughout the world.

14.4 linear feet; 8 boxes, 3 oversize boxes

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SNAC Resource ID: 6321313

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Stinehour, Roderick

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Ashbee, C.R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942

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Epithet: architect and printer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000320 Ashbee was an English architect, city planner, designer and utopian socialist. He was the founder of the Guild of Handicraft in London, an experimental workshop in the English Arts and Crafts movement. In 1917, he was invited by the British military governor to advise on town planning in Jerusalem and report on its local crafts and i...

Pippet, Gabriel

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Carey, Melbert B., 1893-1941

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Beilenson, Peter, 1905-1962

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Altschul, Frank, 1887-1981

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Frank Altschul was born in San Francisco on April 21, 1887. He graduated from Yale in 1908 and served as chairman of the General American Investors Co. Inc. Altschul died on May 29, 1981. From the guide to the Frank Altschul papers, 1924-1941, (Manuscripts and Archives) Investment banker, philanthropist, bibliophile, authority on international affairs. From the description of Frank Altschul papers, 1900-1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCa...

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Rather, Clif

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Graves, Joseph

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Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958

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Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an Irish author and artist best known for his wood engravings. He bought and ran the Golden Cockerel Press in Berkshire, England from 1924-1933, when the stresses of the Great Depression forced him to sell the press. During and after World War II he wrote and illustrated several books on the landscape and natural history of various rivers (among them, 'Sweet Thames Run Softly', 'Going Down the Seine' and 'Lovely is the Lee') which resonated with readers concerned ...

PrĂ¼ssen, Eduard

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Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947

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Frederic William Goudy was an American type designer. After a career in real estate, he began his career as a type designer at 40 and created over 120 type styles including University of California Oldstyle, exclusively for the University of California Press, and Goudy Old Style. Goudy founded the Village Press with Will H. Ransom and was the Art Director for the Lanston Monotype Machine Company from 1920 until his death in 1947. From the description of Frederic W. Goudy collection, ...

Koch, Peter Rutledge

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Biography Peter Rutledge Koch has been designing and printing books and ephemera since 1974, beginning his career in Missoula, Montana with one platen press. He since settled in the San Francisco Bay area and following the San Francisco literary tradition of fine press printing, has acquired an international reputation and several more presses. His clients and collectors range from major international research libraries to bibliophilic organi...

Hoyem, Andrew

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Conwell, Clarke

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Street of Crocodiles (Press)

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Grabhorn, Robert

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Employee of the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco, California. From the guide to the Robert Grabhorn letter, 1953, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922

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T.J. Cobden-Sanderson was an English bookbinder, associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Born in Northumberland, his family travelled extensively; he attended Cambridge, but did not take a degree. His intellectual gifts seemed to fill him with despair, and he read constantly, and was often depressed. He eventually became a barrister in London, where he made several important friends, notably William Morris, who introduced him to Annie Cobden; Sanderson and Annie married, and he changed his...

Hammer, Carolyn Reading

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Trissel, James

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Kanner, Catherine

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Hammer, Victor Karl, 1882-1967

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Victor Karl Hammer and his wife, Carolyn R. Hammer. From the description of Letters, 1939-1983, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155869064 Printer, associated with the Anvil Press of Lexington, Kentucky. From the description of Letter, 1956 Feb. 12, Lexington, Kentucky, to Mr. [Lewis?] Allen. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866453 Victor Hammer (1882-1967), Aus...

Rather, Lois, 1905-

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Lois Rather and Clif Rather, proprietors of the Rather Press, Oakland, Calif. From the description of Lois Rather correspondence : Oakland, Calif. with Roger Keith Larson, 1975-1995. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 35583908 ...

Trovillion, Violet, 1890-

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Trovillion, Hal W., 1879-1967

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Hal W. Trovillion was a publisher who operated local newspapers and a private press known as Trovillion Private Press in Herrin, Illinois. In 1904, after Hal left Indiana University, he moved to Herrin and took over two local newspapers, The Herrin Daily Journal and the Egyptian Republican. In 1908 he started a private press publication. Works were typically published in editions of a few hundred copies, on fine hand made European papers, with titles printed in gilt or on paper title cards. Usua...

Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996

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Biography Ward Ritchie was born in 1905 in Los Angeles, and grew up in a series of residences in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas. His father was in the pharmaceutical trade. He attended Marengo Avenue School and Occidental College, transferring to Stanford, University of the South, and back to Occidental again. After a brief try at law school at USC he decided to make a career the book arts, influenced by a reading of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

Princeton University. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

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From its modest origins as a single room in Nassau Hall, the Princeton University Library has grown to become one of the foremost university libraries in the world. With collections totaling over 12 million volumes, manuscripts, and nonprint items spread across fifteen buildings, the Princeton University Library system serves not only the Princeton University community but the world at large. The genesis of the Princeton University Library is nearly contemporaneous with the founding...

Marks, Lillian

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Biographical/Historical Note The Plantin Press, a small private press in Los Angeles and considered one of North America's finest, was started in 1931 by Saul and Lillian Marks. Saul Marks, having learned the printing trade while a youth in Poland during the First World War, emigrated to the United States in 1921. Here he met and married Lillian Simon in 1928. With the coming of the Depression, the Marks moved to Los Angeles in 1930 and there...

McGrath, Harold

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Bahr, Leonard F.

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Lawrence, Simon, 1958-

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King, Ronald, 1932-

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Thompson, Edmund, 1897-1974

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Grabhorn, Edwin E.

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Of the Grabhorn Press. From the description of Letter "to whom it may concern, " 1942 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384592 ...

Brewer, F. (Fredric)

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Moser, Barry

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Barry Moser was born October 15, 1940, in Chattanooga, Tenn. As he grew up he rebelled against the strictures of his southern, male-oriented family and their notion that art was not a man's job. He attended military school from seventh through twelfth grade, where he learned discipline and orderliness, but also developed a distrust of authority of any kind. Eventually he became an artist, illustrator, author, educator and lecturer. He has illustrated a large number of books, including classics i...

Godine, David R.

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Beilenson, Edna, 1909-1981

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Ishall, Joseph

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Berliner, Harold

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Wood, Roland Armstrong, 1897-1967

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Morris, Henry, 1925-

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Printer and papermaker Henry Morris founded the Bird & Bull Press in 1958 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Since that time, Morris has produced broadsides, books, and other printed materials that are an important part of the contemporary American private press scene and significant documents in the art, craft, and history of hand papermaking. From the description of Swine Print : serial and letter to Anne, 1978--1979. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 432712966 ...

Kellogg, Spencer

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Van Viet, Claire

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Cummins, Maureen

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Grabhorn, Jane Bissell

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Tiessen, Wolfgang

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Marks, Saul, 1905-1974

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Biographical/Historical Note The Plantin Press, a small private press in Los Angeles and considered one of North America's finest, was started in 1931 by Saul and Lillian Marks. Saul Marks, having learned the printing trade while a youth in Poland during the First World War, emigrated to the United States in 1921. Here he met and married Lillian Simon in 1928. With the coming of the Depression, the Marks moved to Los Angeles in 1930 and there...

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941

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Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) was a book designer and printer in New England. He was born an only child in an old and well-connected New England family, but his father's death in 1877 prevented Updike from pursuing higher education. Updike's Episcopalian background greatly influenced both his character and his later work as a printer, and his intellectual and cultural character was molded by his mother, an antiquary and scholar of French and English literature. Updike's first book-related j...

Heckscher, August, 1913-1997

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Author, arts consultant, social commentator, and journalist. From the description of August Heckscher papers, 1931-1999 (bulk 1948-1976). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979771 Art administrator, writer; New York, N.Y. From the description of August Heckscher interviews, 1970 May 25-Dec. 29 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394224 August Heckscher (1913-1997) was a writer, printmaker and educator, who was also active in civic institut...

Stoddard, Carol C.

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Ashbee, Janet E. (Janet Elizabeth)

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Hamady, Walter

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Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady (1940-) was a papermaker, book designer, printer, publisher, artist, poet, and teacher. Hamady is best known for his Shadwell Paper Mill and the Perishable Press. Hamady founded both the Perishable Press and the Shadwell Paper Mill while he was a student at Wayne State University in 1964. In 1966, Hamady was hired as an art instructor at the University of Wisconsin where he taught letterpress printing for over thirty years. Hamady continued to operate th...

Licher, Bruce

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Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990

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American printer. From the description of Typographic years, [ca. 1980]-1982. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936707 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. From the description of Joseph Blumenthal papers, 1922-1991. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 745451641 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. Blumenthal designed Spiral type in 1931 in Germany so that it c...