Herman Cohen correspondence and notes, 1954.

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Herman Cohen correspondence and notes, 1954.

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Correspondence and notes concerning the copy of Isaiah Thomas's A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas, 1785. which was acquired from Cohen's Chiswick Book Shop in 1954 by the Newberry Library. Correspondents include Leslie E. Bliss, John Eliot Alden, R.W.G. Vail, Roland Orvil Baughman, and Philip Hofer.

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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...

Alden, John

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Rare books librarian at the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Correspondence : from Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122690963 ...

Bliss, Leslie E.

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Chiswick Book Shop

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Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831

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Thomas was a New England printer and bookseller who strongly supported the American Revolution. He was also a founder of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. From the description of ALS: Worcester [Massachusetts], to Mr. Bress, 1795 Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86160118 Caleb Alexander was born in 1755 in Northfield, Massachusetts, a town founded by his grandfather. He attended Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown Universities, receiving degrees fro...

Cohen, Herman, d. 1997.

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Vail, R.W.G. (Robert William Glenroie), 1890-1966

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Director of the New-York Historical Society, 1944-1960. From the description of Knickerbocker birthday : a sesqui-centennial history of the New York Historical Society 1954. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773027 ...

Baughman, Roland Orvil, 1902-1967

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Mr. Baughman served as head of Special Collections, Columbia University Libraries from 1946 until his death. From the guide to the Ronald O. Baughman Papers, [ca. 1924]-1967., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Mr. Baughman served as head of Special Collections, Columbia University Libraries from 1946 until his death. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1924]-1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat r...