Rare Books

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Description: Contents include assorted oversize ephemera including exhibition graphics, fine press book announcements, matted letterpress prints, gallery and exhibition posters, etc.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870-1999
Call number: 633396
Creator: Berger, Sanford(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sanford and Helen Berger, October 1999.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Box 62: housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Series 4. Miscellaneous

Rare Books

This series includes photographs, slides, broadsides, exhibition and gallery posters, postcards, greeting cards, calendars, postage stamps, invitations, notes, personal correspondence, matted letterpress prints, clippings, photocopies of proofs and designs, etc. This series also contains a scrapbook of ephemera (mainly invitations) relating to well-known figures and venues in the Arts and Crafts milieu of late Victorian and early Edwardian London. A partial, item-level container list for this series is included below.

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Miscellaneous Ephemera

Rare Books

Contains: Assorted oversize ephemera including fine press book announcements, exhibition posters, etc. Various typed and mls lists of "contents" listing Kelmscott Press proofs, designs, etc. "Calendar" – Sept. 1985 – Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art Copies of photographs or slides of stained glass windows labeled: Bidborough – St. Lawrence – St. Paul Preaching Cambridge – Jesus College Chapel – St. Jerome Cranbourne – Marriage Feast at Cana Leek – All Saints – St. Jerome Gatcombe –St. Olave - Last Supper Gracombe – St. Olave – Marys at Empty Sepulchre Haywards Heath – St. WIlfrid – St. Peter Langton Green – All Saints – Mary Magdalene Lyndhurst – St. Michael and All Angels – Joshua staying the Sun & Moon Selsey – All Saints – Annunciation Selsey – All Saints – Ascension Selsey – All Saints – St. Paul Preaching at Athens Sunderland – Christ Church – Marriage Feast at Cana Sunderland – Christ Church - Miracle of Loaves and Fishes Sunderland – Christ Church - Last Supper Sunderland – Christ Church – Three Marys at Sepulchre Sunderland – Christ Church – Two Men in White Various unidentified copies of cartoons, photos, and drawings of stained glass windows and stained glass window designs.

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Fine press printing publications, woodcuts, and ephemera

Rare Books

Contents include: Three posters from "Gustav Stickley: An American Craftsman" The Oakland Museum – Sept. 7 – Oct. 25, 1971. Three folio broadsides and one poster announcing "The Art Commission and the Public Library Commission of San Francisco Present a Celebration of the Work of Lawton Kennedy". Two broadsides and three smaller posters – calligraphic poem probably in Berger's hand – in Old English. Entitled "A Trewe Indyctment" . Signed "… inscribed by his scrivener St. de Bergere, Xmas 1373". Probably a parody poem by Berger. Poster "From the realms of glory…" depicting portraits of the Clever family Four posters for program "Craftsman of Music" at The Oakland Museum, October 15, 1971. Poster for Thomas Matthew Rooke exhibition , Martyn Gregory Gallery – June 17-28, 1975. Two posters for exhibition "Napoleon: An English Caricature" at the Huntington Gallery – September 1974 – January 1975. Two posters for Hector Guimard exhibition at the Luxembourg Gallery, April - May 1971. Poster "Pierres de Reve" exhibition - Exhibition was held at Arts D'Asie Gallery, Paris from April to May, 1972. Two poster size calendar pages from "Great Days for Design" series – Borden Chemical company. Poster for Edward Burne-Jones exhibition at the Piccadilly Gallery, June 8-25, 1971. Four posters – Art Nouveau exhibition at UC Santa Cruz Poster size membership certificate for Sacramento Society of California Pioneers (space for name is blank). Three photocopies of cartoons - unidentified – probably American Church in Rome. 2 posters with Berger's photograph – "Wanted Dead or Alive". Poster for Rene Schickele exhibition held at Hotel de Ville, Mutzig from 6/7 - 6/22/75. Poster for "Victorian Church Art" exhibition held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London from 11/17/71 to 1/30/72. 14 poster sized photocopies of sketches of the Louvre and various cartoons for stained glass designs for St. Paul's American Church – Rome. Five copies of calligraphic poem in Old English – signed "Scripsit: St. de Bergere" (possibly another parody poem by Berger?) Poster depicting two Mucha paintings.

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Correspondence: Juevlis - Levenson

Rare Books

Note: The folders for Priscilla Juvelis and the Kelmscott Gallery were assembled by the Huntington Library. Contains folders labeled: Priscilla Juvelis George Kane Kenneth Karmiole Katonah Museum of Art Mark Kelman Kelmscott Gallery Norman Kelvin Frederick Kirchhoff Kurland-Zabar Mark Samuels Lasner Barbara Leibowits Graphics John Lehner Eugene LeMire Roger Levenson

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Miscellaneous

Rare Books

Contents include: Morris print-decorated hard cover folder with contents: TLS and envelope – from Virginia Davis thanking the Bergers for their help and enclosing her article on indigo discharge to be printed in the Journal of the William Morris Society. Surface magazine 12(2) Winter 1987 with Virginia Davis' article "William Morris: Discharge and the Art of Dyeing, Part 1". California College of Arts and Crafts – Summer 1992 Exhibition and Program Schedule. Postcard for Virginia Davis' 1993 exhibition "Fast Forward" at the Museum for Textiles in Toronto. Two postcards from Virginia Davis to the Bergers Other miscellaneous letters, postcards, etc. from Virginia Davis plus a 1982 letter from Fran McManus asking for Berger's help in researching her interest in Morris' dyeing with natural dyes. Morris print-decorated hard cover folder containing mostly ephemera and correspondence mainly among Berger, Dreyfus, and William Peterson regarding Morris' type designs.

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Exhibition Ephemera

Rare Books

Contains: Box of labels from "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" - 1984 exhibition at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Sheets of labels from "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" - 1984 exhibition at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Morris-print fabric covered presentation box with label plaque – contains photographs, label text, and catalog for "Celebrating William Morris: Selections from the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection" – 1997 exhibition at the Huntington. "The Morris Work Book" , "The Morris Essay Book" (2 copies of each). Commemorating the 1975 exhibition "Morris & Co.", Stanford Art Gallery. Box of number labels. Unidentified use. Set of labels for Kelmscott books and proofs. Unidentified use but possibly for the exhibition "William Morris Drawing and Trial Designs for the Kelmscott Press" Oversized manila envelope containing labels and wall text for the 1979 exhibition "Morris and Company: The Stained Glass" at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art. Typed page headed "Binder's Notes – December 21/22 1974 / Kelmscott Press – Specimen Book/ Property of Sanford Berger" signed by Gale Herrick, Binder. Oversize cardboard folder ms. labeled "Large negatives of William Morris" containing 2 copy negatives mounted on masking sheets from San Jose Blue Print company. One depicts William Morris and another gentleman (this is not from a photograph – it appears to be an image of a painting) and one of Morris' famous portrait photographed by Frederick Hollyer Poster "The legacy of William Morris" – lists various exhibitions and lectures centering around the exhibition "Morris & Co." held at the Stanford Art Gallery, March 4 – May 4, 1975. Four posters for the exhibition "The Craftsman Style: From Roots to Revival" held Sept. 10 – Oct. 29, 1983 at the Santa Cruz City Museum. Thirteen posters for exhibition "Art Nouveau: Objets D'Art 1900" at the Union Gallery – StudentUnion – SJSU (probably San Jose State University). Six photocopies(?) of varying sizes and of varying size views of woodcut initial "B". Nine posters for "The legacy of William Morris". Reproductions/mock-up of Morris design (ancathus) - 2 oversized sheets in plastic sleeve– on one ms. inscribed "This overlay for /invitation: / sheet @ 58.5% / shoot for window on invitation?" Textile banner from the Huntington's exhibition "Celebrating William Morris". Photo album. Ms (calligraphic) inscription "for/The Huntington 'Family'/ with / "Great Admiration & Appreciation"/ from / "Helen & Sanford Berger". Contains 53 dated, colored photographs from the Huntington's exhibition "Celebrating William Morris" October 25, 1996 – January 5, 1997. In envelope ms inscribed "Sandy Berger": Two (2) furniture tags – one from the Craftsman Workshops of Eastwood, NY and one from the Gaines-Walrath Co, of Oakland, CA. Eleven (11) color photographs possibly of the exhibition "The American Craftsman" (1964) at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in New York City. Exhibition catalogue – "From the Kelmscott Press: An Exhibition of Books, their Bindings and Pages" held January 19- - August 3, 1975 at the Low Art Museum, University of Miami.

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