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Letterpress printing -- Specimens

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Fine Press Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_fpephemera
Abstract

Ephemera and documents from numerous American fine presses of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Samples of presswork from Arion, Bergamot, Black Sparrow, Bloodroot, Janus, Kat Ran, Ninja, Sutton Hoo and many more presses.

Dates: 1973-2005; Majority of material found within 1990-2005

Martin Cohen Collection of Kalamazoo Fine Press Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: RH-Z240.C54 M33x 1968z
Abstract

Collection reflects letterpress activities of Martin Cohen (1915-2005) a WMU Professor of Librarianship and Paul Hayden Duensing in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Items include samples of job printing for WMU and private clients. Two pamphlets are cataloged separately.

Dates: 1968-2000; Majority of material found within 1970-1981; Other: Date acquired: 12/03/2002