A portfolio honoring Harold Hugo for his contribution to scholarly printing + signed typed letters to A portfolio honoring Harold Hugo for his contribution to scholarly printing + signed typed letters to Vivian Ridler

Hugo, Harold

Erscheinungsdatum: 1978

Beschreibung

colophon - Designed by PJ Conkwright, printed by letterpress at The Stinehour Press, with reproductions by The Meriden Gravure Company, on paper supplied by Leonard Schlosser, portfolio by Coman & Southworth. A cloth bound portfolio or box containing a variety of fascicules or unbound sections, Title page and foreword, 36 numbered sections, then an epilogue and list of subscribers. No sign of ownership, but loosely inserted are letters etc to Vivian Ridler: 3 brief typed letters signed by Harold Hugo, 1978 - 1982. Prospectus for Adventures in printing [some creasing]. Subscription form for Adventures in printing. Note for Double Crown subscribers to Adventures in Printing. Invitation to lecture by Gay Walker + reply card. 2 typed letters signed by Marcus A McCorison of the American Antiquarian Society 1985 + 1986. Receipt for donation to the E Harold Hugo Fund. Printed booklet for the Harold Hugo Memorial Book Fund. Photocopy of the obituary for Harold Hugo from The Times An original of the obituary is pasted to the inner cover of the portfolio. Vivian Ridler is listed both among the subscribers to the Portfolio and also in the booklet for the Hugo Memorial Book Fund. He also wrote the text for section 26. The sections are 1. American Antiquarian Society - The copyrigth law of 1790 2. American Philosophical Society - Titian Ramsay Peale - Missouri Bear 3. American School of Classical Studies at Athens - A golden victory 4. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art - A watercolour by Peter Rindisbacher 5. The Boston Athenaeum - Washington Library Number 220 6. Boston Public Library - A collector and friends [3 facsimiles] 7. The trustees of the Chatsworth settlement - An Inigo Jones drawing for a masque 8. Club of Odd Volumes - The man in the boat 9. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - The Frenchman's map 10. Dartmouth College Library - Scheme for a new typeface by Rudolph Ruzicka 11. Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University - A print and a watercolour by Braquemond 12. The Grolier Club - A miniature incunable in the Library of the Grolier Club 13. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania - A letter from Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke 14. Houghton Library of Harvard University - A portrait engraving of Christopher Plantin 15. International Exhibitions Foundation - A drawing by Albrecht Durer 16. The John Carter Brown Library - Oval world map by Battista Agnese 17. Library Company of Philadelphia - The United States Hotel by Duval after Quintin 18. Library of Congress - The earliest known photograph of the United States Capitol 19. Massachusetts Historical Society - George Washington to the Select Men and Citizens of Boston 20. Museum of Fine Art, Boston - Harold: experimental lithographer 21. Mystic Seaport - The figurehead of the ship Great Republic 22. National Gallery of Art - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: a scherzo [2 facsimiles] 23. National Portrait Gallery - A Saint-Gaudens plaque modelled for fun 24. Old Dartmouth Historical Society - Regatta off New Bedford 25. Old Sturbridge Village - Wood engravings by Thomas Nason for Old Sturbridge Village [4 facsimiles] 26. Oxford University Press - A sixteenth-century watercolour [text by Vivian Ridler] 27. Peabody Museum of Salem - A pencil and watercolour portrait 28. The Pierpoint Morgan Library - A letter of King Edward VI 29. Princeton University Library - A medieval American manuscript [stains to the rear of the text pages] 30. Smithsonian Institution - An excerpt from notes on drawing and an illustration by Durer [stains to the title page] 31. University of Virginia Library - An elevation drawing by Thomas Jefferson 32. Wesleyan University Library - The Baskin Hugo 33. The Yale University Art Gallery - A Seurat study 34. Yale University. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Thomas More's Prayer Book 35. The Yale Center for British Art - A Stubbs painting 36. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence - Edward's Printing House [small. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004135

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A portfolio honoring Harold Hugo for his ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 1978

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: Book