A yet to be identified designer who used both a stylized VP monogram with the letters conjoined, and a simpler PV monogram with the letters spaced apart.
The Publishers' Bindings Collection primarily consists of late nineteenth and twentieth century American books bound in decorated publisher's cloth. Part of the collection was purchased from Charles S. Kamen, a private collector, in 1996. It has been augmented with books from the Libraries collection, and a second collection assembled by David R. Anderson and purchased in 1997 from Margolis and Moss.
The Publishers’ Bindings digital collection draws on the Rare Book Collection of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, including many books from the Juvenile Literature Collection. The focus is on digitizing certain decorative and unique-to-our-copy elements of select books, rather than providing digital access to the entire text. In many cases, only select views and pages have been digitized while, when available, an external link to the full-text version is provided in the object description.
The thesis examines the career of the artist and craft worker Phoebe Traquair (1B52-1936) and her role in both the establishment and development of an Edinburgh arts and, crafts school between the 1880s and the 1920s.
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.
The Peter Newell Family Papers contain correspondence, photographs, personal papers, writings, drawings, paintings and publications that document the life and career of illustrator and humorist Peter Newell, with additional material relating to his children, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. The papers span the dates of 1840-1985, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1884-1950.