[Eight interior views of the Merrymount Press] [graphic]. [between 1896 and 1949]

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[Eight interior views of the Merrymount Press] [graphic]. [between 1896 and 1949]

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Eight interior photographic views of Merrymount Press' offices in several different locations in Boston, Mass., including 7 Tremont Place, 104 Chestnut Street , 232 Summer Street, and 712 Beacon Street. Contains a portrait of Daniel Berkeley Updike in his library at the Summer Street office.

8 photographic prints ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.

Boston Athenaeum

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Merrymount Press

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The Merrymount Press was established in Boston in 1893 by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The Merrymount Press was known for its excellence in typography and design, especially in the field of decorative printing and bookmaking. From the description of Records of the Merrymount Press, 1893-1948. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122510241 The Merrymount Press in Boston was the printing-office of D.B. (Daniel Berkeley) Updi...

Thomas E. Marr & Son,

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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...

Marr, Arthur E.,

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Clark, William T., fl. 1888-1921,

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