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Artists of the book in Boston, 1890-1910 / Nancy Finlay.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Reference 228
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finlay, Nancy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houghton Library.
- Printing--Massachusetts--Boston--History--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Printing.
- Book design--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Book design.
- Private press books--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Private press books.
- Book ornamentation--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Book ornamentation.
- Illustrated books--Massachusetts--Boston--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Illustrated books.
- History.
- Boston (Mass.)--Imprints--Exhibitions.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Houghton Library--Exhibitions.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 114 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, 1985.
- Summary:
- By the end of the nineteenth century, Boston's literary importance was on the wane. Printing and publishing, however, remained the city's largest industries; out of this turbulent time emerged a demimonde of designers and illustrators who took advantage of the opportunities offered by Boston's publishing world. At once spare and sumptuous, abstract and organic, the bindings and illustrations created by such artists as William Addison Dwiggins, Elisha Brown Bird, and Sarah Wyman Whitman encompassed a lively and distinctive modernity. Nancy Finlay's catalogue celebrates the efflorescence of these artists of the book.
- Notes:
- "In conjunction with an exhibition at the Houghton Library, October 15-December 15, 1985"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-111) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has card invitation and symposium letter laid in. Also, letter to Vilain.
- ISBN:
- 9780914630258
- 0914630253
- OCLC:
- 12582400
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