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Identification: MSS 099, F839
Creator: Wolfe, Richard J.
Title: Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop : galley proofs
Inclusive Dates: 1985
Extent: 1 item (40 p.) ; 20 x 60 cm.
Abstract: This item comprises the original galley proofs for Richard J. Wolfe’s and Paul McKenna’s book, Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop, as published by Bird & Bull Press in 1985.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F839, Richard J. Wolfe and Paul McKenna, Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop : galley proofs, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
F839: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 oversize galleys
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Purchase, January 2009.
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Richard J. Wolfe was the curator of rare books and manuscripts in The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University and the Joseph Garland Librarian of the Boston Medical Library. He has written on the subjects of early American music publishing, nineteenth-century color printing, the book arts, and marbled paper. He is the author of Marbled paper, its history, techniques and patterns (1990).Paul McKenna is the author of A History and bibliography of the Roycroft Printing Shop.
Sources:
Wolfe, Richard J. Marbled paper, its history, techniques and patterns. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1990.
McKenna, Paul. A History and bibliography of the Roycroft Printing Shop. North Tonawanda, N.Y. : Tona Graphics, c1986.
This collection comprises the original galley proofs for Richard J. Wolfe’s and Paul McKenna’s book, Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop, as published by Bird & Bull Press in 1985. The proofs bear numerous handwritten corrections and editorial notes by publisher Henry Morris.
Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America, 1985 [F839] (Removed to: SPEC MSS 099 oversize galleys)
1 item (40 p.)
Original galley proofs for Richard J. Wolfe’s and Paul McKenna’s book, Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop, as published by Bird & Bull Press in 1985. The proofs bear numerous handwritten corrections and editorial notes by publisher Henry Morris.
