ANTIQUE MODERN & SWASH: A Brief History of Women in Printing
First edition of this commemorative history of the Club of Printing Women of New York and its pioneering predecessors.
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Price: $150.00
ANTIQUE MODERN & SWASH: A Brief History of Women in Printing
"Women literally had their hands in printing throughout its history." (Kaplan)
A slim volume published in honor of the 25th anniversary of New York's Club of Printing Women, paying tribute to the 18th- and 19th-century women printers of New York born "too early to be invited" into the CPW, as well as the Club's past and present membership. Laid in are two letters from graphic designer and former Club president Ceil Smith Thayer to John W. Curran, DePaul law professor and contributor to The Amateur Book Collector, regarding his mention of early printer Ann Catherine Green and requesting permission to reproduce an illustration. A second letter offers him thanks along with a complimentary copy of the completed book, "no typographic gem but historic". Also enclosed are a series of excerpts from Douglas Petrie's THE BOOK, regarding early American women printers, for Curran's edification, and a photograph of Thayer with fellow Club members lunching at the Terrace Room of the New Yorker, clipped from a Club newsletter. This copy subsequently came into the possession of famed bibliophile Abel E. Berland, who studied law at Depaul under Curran. Berland, eulogized by R. Eden Martin as "Chicago's greatest book collector," was a member of the Caxton Club, which excluded women from membership until 1976. His immense collection was dispersed in a record-breaking auction sale by Christie's in 2001. A notable association copy.
Read more: Christie's, Library of Abel E. Berland.
The Object
New York: The Club of Printing Women of New York, 1955. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with blue-grey paper-covered boards, front board stamped with the Club's device. Silver metallic endpapers. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Edition of 1000 copies. 60, [4] pages. From the library of collector Abel E. Berland, with his bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Assorted Club-related contemporary correspondence and ephemera laid in, including: two typed letters from Ceil Smith Thayer to John W. Curran, in original envelopes. Light wear to boards, with sunning across front board. Very faint foxing to edges of text block. Interior clean.
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