Bertha M. Goudy : recollections by one who knew her best / fwg

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, author, type designer.

Contributor:

Coggeshall, Howard, printer.

Village Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goudy, Bertha, 1869-1935.

Goudy, Bertha.

Village Press.

Printers--United States--Biography.

Printers.

United States.

Women typographers.

Women designers.

Genre:

collotypes (prints)

Biographies

Case bindings (Binding)

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bertham.

Hurlbut Permanent Record (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

33 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Bertha M. Goudy : a memorial

Place of Publication:

Marlboro, N.Y. : The Village Press, MCMXXXIX [1939].

Notes:

At head of title: B.M.G.

"Author's introduction" signed: Frederic W. Goudy.

"Reprinted with an introduction & some additional matter from Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, published in the spring of 1937. Set in Bertham type and printed by Howard Coggeshall at his Press in Utica, N.Y., in November, 1939. Three hundred copies have been printed on Hurlbut Permanent Record book paper for our friends. No copies are for sale"--Page 33.

Set in Bertham type, designed by the author and named for Bertha M. Goudy.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has booksellers sticker on inside back cover: Philip C. Duschnes Rare Books. New York.

OCLC:

5529367