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Notes on the Merrymount Press & its work: PB 62-2003

Object information

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Titles

Notes on the Merrymount Press & its work

Maker(s)

Author: Updike, Daniel Berkeley
Compiler: Smith, Julian Pearce
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Printer: Merrymount Press

Categories

Description

By Daniel Berkeley Updike; with a bibliographical list of books printed at the press, 1893-1933, by Julian Pearce Smith; with views of the press at various periods, specimen of types alluded to, &c. &c. &c.

Vi, 279 p : plates ; 24 cm

Notes

History note: Original owner: C. H. St. John Hornby

Place(s) associated

  • Cambridge (Mass.)
  • Boston (MA)

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1934

Note

"Limited to five hundred copies printed on machine-made paper at the Merrymount Press, Boston.".

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 62-2003
Primary reference Number: 94627
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Notes on the Merrymount Press & its work" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/94627 Accessed: 2024-04-19 05:24:09

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