Manuscripts

[Arents Tobacco Collection Catalogue dummy] [Copy 1 of 2]

Description: Chiefly blank pages, except for printed pages 22-23 and 64-65; With notes: "Projected Arents Tobacco Catalogue. Not printed by Updike" and "Updike (other dummy shows binding cloth turned inside out & colored end-papers)." This appears to be a dummy for the work eventually published for the New York Public Library as Tobacco, its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1893-1950
Call number: mssMerrymount
Creator: Merrymount Press(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from John Bianchi, 1949.; Gift of Daniel B. Bianchi, 1958.
Associated people: Bianchi, John, (1874-); Brent, Charles Henry, (1862-1929.); Bullen, Henry Lewis, (1857-1938,); Carrington, Fitz Roy, (1869-1954,); Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (1840-1922.); Cortissoz, Royal, (1869-1948,); De Vinne, Theodore Low, (1828-1914.); Dwiggins, W. A. (1880-1956.); Einstein, Lewis, (1877-1967,); Farrand, Beatrix, (1872-1959,); Gardner, Isabella Stewart, (1840-1924.); Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, (1869-1924.); Goodspeed, Charles E. (1867-1950,); Greene, Belle da Costa. (1852-1942,); Kellen, William Vail, (1866-1948.); Kent, Henry Watson, (1867-1943.); Morgan, J. P. (1889-1967.); Morison, Stanley, (1870-1957.); Rogers, Bruce, (1883-1978.); Ruzicka, Rudolph, (1860-1941.); Updike, Daniel Berkeley, (1897-1986.); Orton, Vrest, (1894-1939.); Warde, Frederic, (1860-1928,); Warren, Edward Perry, (1862-1937.); Wharton, Edith, (1871-1952.); Wheelwright, Mary C.,; Winship, George Parker,
Associated organizations: American Institute of Graphic Arts,; American Numismatic Society (1907- ),; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,; Club of Odd Volumes,; G. Schirmer, Inc.,; Harvard College Library,; Harvard University,; Hispanic Society of America,; Japan Paper Company,; John Carter Brown Library,; Oliver Ditson Company,; Oxford University Press,; Thomas Y. Crowell Company,
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