Peter Verburg

Item

Occupation (dcterms:type)
cover designer
binder
Type (dcterms:type)
Identified
Title (dcterms:title)
Peter Verburg
Verburg, Peter Cornelius Jr.
Monogram or signature used (dcterms:alternative)
PV
Temporal Coverage (dcterms:temporal)
1881-1957 See all items with this value
Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial)
United States See all items with this value
Description (dcterms:description)
Primarily a bookbinder, Peter Verburg apprenticed under bookbinder Ellen Starr Gates at the Hull House bindery in Chicago.

For the Boston publisher L.C. Page, he provided at least one book cover, and a set of decorations that were reused in a set of titles by the author Nathan Gallizier.

He later went on to become the directory of the bindery at the Merrymount Press, working for D.B. Updike. See all items with this value
As of 1913, he was in charge of the G. Schirmer bindery, in New York. See all items with this value
lastName (foaf:lastName)
Verburg
firstName (foaf:firstName)
Peter
Is Referenced By (dcterms:isReferencedBy)
Entry for Peter Verburg on the "Jane Adams Digital Edition" project website
Mention of Merrymount Press bindery establishment, under the charge of PEter Verburg, in The Publishers' Weekly 1905-10-21: Vol 68 Iss 17, Page 1056
Mention of fine bindings of scores, by the G. Schirmer Binderyunder the charge of Peter Verburg, in Musical Courier 1913-12-10: Vol 67 Iss 24, Page 45
Spouse Of (rel:spouseOf)
Ethel Virginia Lord
Employed By (rel:employedBy)
Starr, Ellen Gates
Merrymount Press
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)
G. Schirmer, Inc.
Note (curation:note)
Verburg was misidentified as "Paul Verberg" in the March 1903 edition of "The Craftsman", in an article about an exhibition held by the Society of Arts and Crafts of Minneapolis.
Verburg's name has also been misspelled by publishers and in the trade magazines as "Verberg".
Item sets
Designers
Media
Ellen Gates Starr, Peter Verburg, and Jane Addams, 1902
Announcement of Merrymount Press bindery opening
PV monogram

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