Records of the librarians, 1897-1970.

Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-1949

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Flora Virginia Milner was born in 1862. She was the daughter of Jehu Milner and Mary Queen. Flora graduated from the Cleveland Female Seminary. She lived in Hays, Kansas from 1878 to 1880, then moved to Bozeman, Montana, where she taught school. She married Luther S. Livingston in 1891, and they lived in Grand Rapids, Montana, and fron there, they moved to Scarsdale, New York. Luther Samuel Livingston (1864-1914) was an American bibliophile and scholar. He was the first curator of the Har...

Grolier Club. Library Committee.

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The Grolier Club was founded in 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." It mounts public exhibitions each year, publishes catalogs and other materials, and sponsors lectures on the book arts. The Library Committee was established in 1887. From the description of Records, 1893-- (bulk 1905-1936 ; 1940-1944 ; 1957- ). (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, was president of Harvard University. At age 36, Lowell had her first poem published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912, her first book of poems, A dome of many colored glasses was published. She became associated with the Imagists poets when Ezra Pound, whom she had met on a trip to England, included one of her poems in his anthology, Des imagistes. Lowell wrote critical articles for periodicals in add...

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...

Mansfield, Howard, 1849-1938

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Compiler of a catalogue of an exhibition of etchings and dry-points by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. From the description of Howard Mansfield letter, 1909 March 23. (Defense Special Weapons Agency). WorldCat record id: 122333579 ...

Atelier Bindery.

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Haight, Sherman P. (Sherman Post), 1922-

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Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926

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Joseph Pennell was an American artist and educator, primarily known for his etchings and illustrations. Much of his early work consisted of city scenes, published in magazines. He later worked on a variety of projects, often illustrating books in collaboration with his wife, author Elizabeth Robins. After spending time in Europe, notably London, Pennell taught art, and the couple collaborated on a biography of James McNeill Whistler. From the description of Joseph Pennell letter to M...

Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960

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Rollins was a book designer long associated with the Yale University Press (1918-1948). From the description of [Letters] 1935 / Carl P. Rollins. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 352927040 Carl Purington Rollins was born in 1880 in West Newbury, Massachussets. He attended Harvard University from 1897-1900, and worked at Heintzemann Press in Boston before joining New Clairvaux, a rural Utopian community, in Montague, Massachusetts,in 1903. Rollins taught prin...

Mackall, Leonard L. (Leonard Leopold), 1879-1937

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Epithet: of Add MS 38912 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000798.0x00033f Leonard Leopold Mackall was born on January 29, 1879, in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1900 where he took an interest in German literature. In 1902, he graduated from Harvard Law School. Within the next few years, he would attend Johns Hopkins University and the Universities of Berl...

Haber, Louise ˜vonœ

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Simmonds, Harvey

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Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967

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English typographer, author, and lecturer. From the description of Letter, 1958. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 13048845 British printer, typographer and writer. From the description of Letter, 1939. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78489119 English typographer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Holbrook Jackson, 1923 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613086 ...

Grolier Club. Library

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Beatrice (Becker) Warde was born in New York City. After graduating from Barnard College, she worked at the American Typefounders' Company Library in Jersey City for four years. In 1925 she went to England and began to write articles on printing history under the name "Paul Beaujon," and was then recruited by the Monotype Corporation. At Monotype Warde edited the Monotype recorder and eventually became director of publicity. She was married to book designer and typographer Frederic Warde, who di...

Harper, Lathrop C.

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Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904

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American artist, connoisseur, and art dealer, born Mar. 17, 1822 in New York City; died there on Aug. 11, 1904. Avery began his career as an engraver on copper and wood, then established himself as an art dealer in 1865, making annual purchasing trips to Europe each year between 1871 and 1882. He personally knew many American and European artists, whose works he bought, sold and publicized. Avery's connoisseurship was responsible for the formation of numerous private art collections in New York,...

Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948

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Warde, Beatrice

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English writer on typography. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York], to F.B. Adams, Jr., 1969 Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659511 Epithet: Mrs née Becker typographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0001e7 ...

Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931

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The collection was acquired over many years, ca. 1966-1999, from family members Fred Rudge and Edwin Rudge (WERIII), as well as Edwin Rudge's daughter, Joanna Rudge Long. Former Rudge employee and UCSB Special Collections consultant Hobart O. Skofield did much of the work accumulating the manuscript and related Rudge imprint collection,and also acquired materials from other Rudge alumni and various dealers. From the description of The William Edwin Rudge Collection, [ca. 1903 - 1983]...

G.E. Stechert & Co.

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Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962

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Elmer Adler worked in his family's clothing firm in Rochester, N.Y. while developing an avocation as a book and print collector. In 1922 he came to New York City and established the Pynson Printers; he began to makea reputation as a book designer. Adler served as a typographic consultant to several magazines and to The New York Times. From 1930 to 1940 he published The colophon : a book collector's quarterly. In 1940 he was invited to establish a Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton Universit...

Bender, J. Terry (John Terry)

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Chief of Division of Special Collections and keeper of rare books at Stanford University Libraries. From the description of Correspondence, 1962-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553284 From the guide to the J. Terry Bender correspondence, 1962-1966, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951

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Porter Garnett, a native of San Francisco, was prominent in West Coast literary activities and in fine printing. He co-founded "The Lark" with Gelett Burgess, was a dramatic and literary critic, an assistant curator at The Bancroft Library (1907-12), and founder of the Laboratory Press while professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1922-35). Garnett was also an active member of the Bohemian Club. From the description of Two minor miracles, or, So help(ed) me...

Stone, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1864-1938

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Collector of Roanoke, Va. From the description of Papers of Edward L. Stone [manuscript], 1730-1802. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874449 Edward Lee Stone was born September 15, 1864, in Liberty, Virginia (now known as Bedford, VA) and died in 1938. After working for John P. Bell's printing company, Stone was promoted and eventually took over the business. He became a wealthy and prominent citizen of Roanoake through his business, the Stone Printing and Ma...

Jaffray, Robert, 1854-1926

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Diehl, Edith

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Edith Diehl was born in Brewster, New York. She studied bookbinding in Europe for five years and eventually established her own bindery in New York City, employing two of the French bookbinders who had formerly worked for the Grolier Club bindery. She was later in charge of the bindery at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge and then, for two years, produced bindings for books designed by Bruce Rogers. After 1941 she devoted herself to teaching the techniques of hand bookbinding. She died i...

Stikeman (Firm)

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Parsons, Edward Alexander, 1878-1962

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A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons publis...

Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff, 1892-1941

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Melbert Brinkerhoff Cary Jr. (1892-1941) was born in New York, educated at Groton School and Yale University (Class of 1916), and died in New York. He was director of Continental Type Founders Association, president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and proprietor of the private Press of the Woolly Whale. From the description of Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection, 1895-1986. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 746849993 Frederic W. Goudy founded the Village ...

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944

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Epithet: bibliographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000146 ...

Horton, Carolyn.

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Austin, Gabriel

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Gabriel Austin was curator of the Grolier Club (a society for bibliophiles located in New York City) from 1963 to 1965 and librarian from 1965 to 1970. Jean Grolier was a French court official and bibliophile who served in various capacities under Louis XII, Francois I, Henry II and Charles IX. He was a patron of French and Italian scholarship and printing. Grolier's extensive library may have numbered as many as 3,000 volumes, and he commissioned elaborate bindings for many of them. The collect...

Greg, W. W. 1875-1959,

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Livingston, Luther Samuel, 1864-1914

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Luther Samuel Livingston was the first curator of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harvard College Library. In 1912 Livingston published a set of "Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson, said to have never been published in the 1885 issue of "A Child's Garden of Verses." From the description of Letters sent to Luther Samuel Livingston, 1900-1912. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612840031 American bookseller and bibliographer. From the description o...

Davidson, Alexander C. (Alexander Charles), 1965-

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B.F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd.

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McKerrow, R. B. 1872-1940

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Gunst, Morgan A. (Morgan Arthur)

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Morgan Gunst was a collector of fine bindings. He chaired the Modern Fine Bindings Committee of the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1938. His collection of bindings came to Special Collections, and is now part of the Gunst Collection. From the description of Fine bindings : photographs, ca. 1938-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122585335 ...

Bartlett, Henrietta C. (Henrietta Collins), 1873-1963

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Henrietta C. Bartlett, born in 1873, was a long-time resident of New Haven. Her father, Charles G. Bartlett, received his M.A. from Yale in 1888, and at least one of her brothers attended Yale as an undergraduate. Bartlett herself was involved with the University as an active donor to the library, with gifts ranging from her extensive library of rare books to her own personal papers. Bartlett gave many lectures at Yale during the 1920's and 1930's on the subjects of bibliography, collecting, and...

Root, Robert K. (Robert Kilburn), 1877-1950

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Dodd, Marian

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MacDonald & Maier.

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Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970

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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...

Granniss, Ruth S. (Ruth Shepard), 1872-1954

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Librarian of the Grolier Club. From the description of Ruth S. Granniss correspondence, 1911-1914. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 470399492 ...

Gilliss, Walter, 1855-1925

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New York City printer who operated the Gilliss Press with his brother Frank and was known for his classic taste in book design. Walter Gilliss served as typographical advisor to Doubleday, Page & Co., while his own press printed over 300 books for private individuals and bibliophile societies. His masterpiece of design and execution is generally considered to be The iconography of Manhattan Island by I. N. Phleps Stokes. Gilliss was a founding member of the Grolier Club in 1884 and served as...

Lawrence, Richard Hoe

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Librarian of the Grolier Club. From the description of Letter, 1901, May 20, The Grolier Club, to H. L. Koopman, Brown University. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122615665 ...

Ratchford, Fanny Elizabeth, 1888-

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MacDonald James.

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McKay, George L. (George Leslie), 1895-1976

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Author residing in Richmond (Henrico Co.), Va. From the description of George L. McKay Short stories, undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43737877 From the description of Short stories, n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 79297132 George L. McKay was Curator (1923-1959) of the Grolier Club, a New York City bibliophile society, and also served as its librarian (1944-1959). From 1947 to 1959 he was advisor to the Edwin J. Beinecke C...

Ashbee, C. R. 1863-1942

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Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982

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Epithet: surgeon and bibliophile British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00009b ...

Landauer, Bella Clara, 1874-1960

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Doubleday and Company, Inc. French Binders.

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Cole, George Watson, 1850-1939

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Epithet: Librarian Henry E Huntington Library British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x0000ab George Watson Cole: school teacher, 1872-1876; admitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1876, and practiced law until 1885; from 1885-1886 compiled the Classified Catalogue of the Fitchburg Public Library; in 1886 became Librarian of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn; from 1888-1891 worked for Newberry Library in Chicago; from 189...

Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948

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Henry Watson Kent served as the first professional librarian of the Grolier Club from 1903 to 1906 and originated its classification scheme. He continued to serve the Club during the following decades through its Library, Publications and House committees, and its Council. From 1906 until his retirement in 1940 Kent was Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. From the description of What I am pleased to call my education : typescript, 1948 / by Henry Watson Kent...

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...