Letters, 1892-1934, London and New York, etc., to Philip D. Sherman.

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Letters, 1892-1934, London and New York, etc., to Philip D. Sherman.

4 Folders: [1] American Book Co. - Doubleday, Page & Co. [6 items]. [2] Gregynog Press - Mathews, Elkin [5 items]. [3] Merrymount Press - Nimmo, John C. [5 items]. [4] Plimpton Press - Walker, Emery [5 items].--Business connected with books, Mr. Sherman's collection, his column and the Rowfant Club.

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Rowfant Club, Cleveland.

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Harper & Brothers.

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

Walker, Emery, 1851-1933

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English typographer and antiquarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rome, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1903 Oct. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270586295 Walker was born on Apr. 2, 1851 in Paddington, London, England; attended St. Mark's College, Chelsea, and at age 14 began a succession of laborious occupations; met Alfred Dawson who had perfected a form of etching known as glyptography; joined him in 1873 at the Typographic Etching Co.; in 1886, Walk...

Lane, John, 1845-1925.

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Sherman, Philip D. (Philip Darrell), 1881-1957

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Brown class of 1902. Bibliophile; student of Professor Harry Lyman Koopman (Librarian of Brown University). Taught English Literature at Ohio Wesleyan and at Oberlin College from which he retired in 1942. From the description of Collection of letters and manuscripts, 1819-1957. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122529455 Brown University Class of 1902. Bibliophile; student of Professor Harry Lyman Koopman (Librarian of Brown University) in whose honor he named his coll...

Mathews, Elkin, 1851-1921

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Epithet: bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x000142 Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000977.0x000353 ...

Plimpton Press

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Plimpton Press originally established in Boston, Mass., in 1882 by Herbert M. Plimpton, but moved to Norwood, Mass., in 1897. By 1920 the bindery part of the plant was capable of producing 50,000 volumes daily and by 1936 the press employed over 600; produced textbooks but expanded into religious books, fiction, and deluxe editions. In its heyday in the late 1950s, its work force surpassed 1200 employees. In 1924 the company opened a subsidiary plant in LaPorte, Ind., and this plant was greatly ...

Gregynog Press

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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...