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Preliminary Guide to the Meriden Gravure Company Collection
Printers Mss 13
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Title: Meriden Gravure Company Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1964-1971
Collection Number: Printers Mss 13
Creator:
D. Tambo
Extent:
.8 linear feet
(2 document boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Meriden Gravure Company Collection. Printers Mss 13. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains printed examples from the Meriden Gravure Company of Meriden, Connecticut, ca. 1964-1971. Included
are booklets, calendars, exhibition catalogs, guides, journals, and pamphlets commissioned by a number of galleries, museums,
organizations, and universities and colleges.
Meriden Gravure Company, led by E. Harold Hugo, was internationally renowned for its illustrated volumes. In 1977 it merged
with Stinehour Press. For further information about Meriden and other American presses, see works such as: Joseph Blumenthal,
The Printed Book in America (1977).
UCSB Special Collections has a number of additional works printed by Meriden that have been cataloged separately. These can
be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.