Records, 1898-1949.

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Records, 1898-1949.

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Printing room records and job tickets of the press located in Boston, which detail the progress of work through the printing process. With samples of presswork, proofs, original drawings and printed ephemera. Includes samples of the work of designers such as W.A. Dwiggins, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Rudolph Ruzicka. The archive is a prime source of social and printing history for late 19th and early 20th c. Boston and New England, and, in particular, of the design work of the founder of the Press, Daniel Berkeley Updike. Job tickets arranged in chron. order and numbered according to a published bibliography of the Press by J.B. Smith and included in Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work by D.B. Updike (1934). There is an index to the records in the Reference Dept. Correspondence files located at the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

ca. 18,000 job tickets in 200 boxes ; 26 cm.

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...

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941

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Růžička, Rudolph 1883-1978

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Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924

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Dwiggins, W.A. (William Addison), 1880-1956

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W. A. Dwiggins was a calligrapher, type designer and illustrator. Forthe first two decades of the twentieth century he supplied art work to Boston advertisers. Henry Watson Kent was the first librarian of the Grolier Club (a New York City bibliophile society). For many years Kent served as secretary to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he set the standard for fine institutional printing. He was also an authority on prints. From the description of ALS: Boston, to Henry Watson Kent...

Bianchi, John.

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