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Prospectuses (Bookselling)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Book Club of California collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: CSC-0057
Overview

The Book Club of California collection contains keepsakes, book prospectuses, and ephemera produced by the Club to promote their publications and programs. The bulk of the collection was acquired over several decades as a benefit of the RIT Cary Collection being a "Standing Order" member. The Collection is not a complete repository of everything the Club has produced since 1912.

Dates: 1920-2013; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Colophon collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: CSC-0013
Overview

Collection of correspondence, printed signatures, ephemera, and original drawings realted to The Colophon. The Colphon: a Book Collector's Quarterly, was published in New York between 1930 and 1950.

Dates: 1929 - 1950
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Continental Typefounders Association scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0024
Overview

Six bound volumes containing prospectuses, advertisements, letterhead, announcements, printed type specimens, pamphlets, circular letters, price lists, press clippings, off-prints, photographs, and some correspondence, documenting the first decade of the firm Continental Typefounders Association.

Dates: 1925 - 1936
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Frederic W. Goudy collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0008
Scope and Contents The Frederic W. Goudy collection contains materials from 1867 through 1964, with the bulk of the papers dated between 1920 and 1947.This collection contains materials related to the life of printer, typographer, and type designer Frederic W. Goudy includes print items, proofs, manuscripts, type patterns and drawings, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, and realia.Items of note include photographs of the Goudys in their home and workshop at Marlborough,...
Dates: 1867-1964; Majority of material found within circa 1920-1947
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Press of the Woolly Whale Collection

 Collection — Box 1-10
Identifier: CSC-0023
Overview

The Press of the Woolly Whale Collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, certificates, and programs, among other items.

Dates: 1928-1972; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1941
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection