Manuscripts

Louis Jacobs Leather monograms, with gold inlay

Description: Also enclosed: autograph note, 1969.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1906
Call number: mssCole
Creator: Cole, L. Averill(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., April 2015. Transferred to Archival Processing Team, October 2022, formerly Rare Book call number: 645435.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Scrapbook, brown leather, bound volume

Manuscripts

Inscribed: To Mother, with dearest love Averill, Sept. 1911. Photographs of bindings, autograph notes, clippings, and printed proofs; some items loose and laid into scrapbook.

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Louis Jacobs L. Averill Cole in Jacobs' studio, Brussels: two photographs

Manuscripts

A collection of material related to the work of L. Averill Cole, an American bookbinder. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, a volume, photographs, a prize medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks. The correspondents include Louis Jacobs, Robert J. Milevski, George Wolfe Plank, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Sandra Howland Smith, and Marianne Tidcombe; the correspondence also includes a small number of family-related letters. The collection also includes research material on Cole collected by Robert J. Milevski, Sandra Howland Smith, and Marianne Tidcombe. The volume was compiled by Sandra Howland Smith about her grandmother entitled: "Selected Fine Bindings of L. Averill Cole, (1880-1971)."

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L ' Ecole de Reliure: graduation diploma for L. Averill Cole for study with Louis Jacobs

Manuscripts

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Scrapbook, brown leather, 3-ring binder

Manuscripts

Clippings, photographs, printed material; some items pasted down, but majority have come loose and are only laid into scrapbook.

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Louis Jacobs Thank you note in the form of an illuminated manuscript, sent to L. Averill Cole for care packages sent during World War I

Manuscripts

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L. Averill Cole letter to A. S. W. Rosenbach

Manuscripts

Also with letter: draft copy of the letter, autograph and printed notes.

mssCole

Louis Jacobs Leather monograms, with gold inlay

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