Forty volumes with specimens of small jobs, from bookplates and envelopes to full pamphlets and programs. The numbers correspond to the entries in the job books (volumes 104-141) and are frequently non-consecutive.
Thirty-five volumes containing entries listing jobs completed by the Press with job number, customer and brief description of job and number of copies, and itemized charges. The first eighteen volumes each have alphabetical indexes of customer names at their fronts; subsequent volumes (for jobs 8232-17910, dating from 1916-1949) do not have individual indexes, and instead share one typescript alphabetical index of customer name and corresponding job number.
Note: Volumes 122-125 are disbound and boxed.
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
Fourteen volumes containing entries of jobs arranged chronologically. Each entry includes the customer, type of printing and/or title of work, number of copies, and related charges (such as author's changes, shipping/postage, etc.).
One volumes of prints with handwritten title on flyleaf: "Scrapbook I. Series of Prints of Ornamental Plate, II. Of Louis Philippe 'Romantic' Designs."
Spine title: Novels of Jane Austen, Merrymount Edition, IV Mansfield Park I
Contains title page and full pages repeating only pages 1-8 in various orders of Chapter 1 of Mansfield Park. With printed half-title page: "The Complete Works of Jane Austen / Merrymount Edition."
One scrapbook with handwritten title on flyleaf: "Some Fac-Similes of Title-pages, Design, Ornaments, &." containing a variety of specimens including clipping, pages, bookplates, etc.
