Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The Ward Ritchie Press, and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Materials in the blue cloth clamshell box include propectuses, pamphlets, booklists, menus, envelopes, bookplates and other ephemera by the Ward Ritchie Press, with the bulk being propectuses for works published between 1940 and 1941. An Excel listing of the items is available upon consultation with the Curator of Rare Books. Material in the other two boxes consists of pamphlets, printing samples, clippings, and bookplates.
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Rare Books
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Visual Materials
The collection contains material from independent private presses and university presses from around the world, but the majority of the presses represented in the collection are from the United States. Types of materials include annoucements, correspondence, flyers, booklets, and catalogs. The collection also includes material from printing clubs including Grolier, William Morris Society, Moxon Chappel, Rounce and Coffin, Typophiles, and Zamorano.There are also catalogs and material relating to various type foundry companies such as Ludlow, Linotype, Bauer, and American Type Founders (ATF) as well as paper samples from Japan Paper Company, Linweave, and Worthy Paper Company.
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