![]() ![]() ![]() A very curious collection of upwards of three hundred and seventy specimens of paper with various Watermarks, for A.D. Originally in the collection of Dawson Turner (1775–1858), the auction catalogue description reads: ’Watermarks on Paper. I have included the front matter pinned to the endpapers. The album was elaborately created with sheets of many shapes and sizes bound in various layers, with a brief description written at the top of each sheet. Adler must have been a good negotiator, talking rare book dealer Philip Duschnes down from $350 to $300. This is physically in Princeton’s Graphic Arts Collection and digitized here: ĭuring the 1952-53 fiscal year, a unique collection of nearly 400 specimens of European papers with different watermarks (1377-1840) was acquired for the Graphic Arts Collection, at the suggestion of Elmer Adler (1884-1962) with a fund turned over to the Library by the Friends of the Princeton University Library (FPUL). In honor of the 35th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) co-hosted by the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Archives and Records Administration, currently in progress online, here is a reposting of the unusual collection of watermarks collected by Dawson Turner. Goudy, typographer, Bertha Goudy, compositor (New York: Currier Press, 1923) in American printerĪmerican Printer and Lithographer, Volume 72 Moore Publishing Company, 1921 Printed by Everett Raymond Currier Frederic W. Mirabeau’s tribute to the memory of Benjamin Franklin : delivered at the opening of the National Assembly of France, June 11th, 1790. Reprinted from the “Graphic Arts magazine of August, 1910 … and the edition is limited to three hundred copies”–Colophon.Įverett Raymond Currier, The story of Caslon Old Style (Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Co., 1915). He wrote several manuals on type and color, advised the Conde Nast firm in the design of their periodicals, and composed religious music on the side.Īmong his many publications are: Everett Raymond Currier and Bruce Rogers, Type Spacing (New York: J.M. In 1906, together with Frederic Goudy, Currier established the innovative Currier Press in New York City and later, set up companies in Chicago and Philadelphia. Updike before working with Bruce Rogers at Riverside Press and Heintzman Press in Boston. See Currier below second from the right.Ĭurrier trained with Merrymount Press of D.B. Currier was one of a small band of white male typographers who formed the Stowaways, a private club of book and magazine designers that also included Elmer Adler (founder of the Princeton Graphic Arts Collection). Pica: a Magazine Devoted to the Amenities of the Graphic Arts (1922-1923) was the work of Canadian-born printer/publisher Everett Raymond Currier (1877-1954). One issue of a small printing magazine turned up recently from the Currier Press in New York City. ![]()
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