Finding Aid for the Collection of Fine Press Ephemera 1940-2009 Press Coll. Ephemera

Processed by Jamie Henricks (2009), additional processing by Elizabeth Roy (2015)
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2015, 2009
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles 90018
clark@humnet.ucla.edu


Contributing Institution: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Fine Press Ephemera Collection
Creator: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Identifier/Call Number: Press Coll. Ephemera
Physical Description: 8 Linear Feet 8 boxes
Date (inclusive): about 1940-2009
Abstract: The collection contains material from fine presses and individual printers in the United States and England, with special emphasis on printers working in California. Items include cards, advertisements, invitations, and other printed materials.
Physical Location: Portions of this collection are housed at the Southern Regional Library Facility. Contact Clark staff at least 2 weeks in advance to arrange access.
Language of Material: English .

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts or ephemera must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Fine Press Ephemera Collection, Press Coll. Ephemera, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Acquisition Information

This collection of fine press ephemera is an artificially created collection. It is an accumulation of fine press materials gathered at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library from the 1950s to the present. The collection will continue to grow over time.

Processing History

Processed and described by Jamie Henricks, June 2009.
Additional materials were processed, described, and interfiled into the collection in Summer 2015 by Elizabeth Roy.

Scope and Content

This collection contains printed material from fine presses and printers in the United States and England collected by the Clark Library from the 1950s to the present. Items include but are not limited to printed cards, advertisements for books, invitations to events, and short runs of private press journals. A majority of the items originate from California.

Arrangement

This collection is organized alphabetically by name of press or printer.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Private presses -- 20th century
Small presses -- 20th century
Ephemera -- 20th century
Printed ephemera -- 20th century
Printers -- 20th century

Box 1

Abbe Press

Box 1

Acid Press

Box 1

A. Colish

Box 1

Adagio Press

Box 1

Advertising and Selling

Box 1

Alfred A. Knopf

Box 1

Allenholme P.C.

Box 1

Amelia Roxan Bird

Box 1

American Art Association

Box 1

Americana House Publishers

Box 1

The American Institute of Graphic Arts

Box 1

American Printing History Association

Box 1

Amor Librorum Nos Unit

Box 1

L'Ancre Aldine

Box 1

Anderson Books

Box 1

Angelica Press

Box 1

Anthoensen

Box 1

Artichoke Press

General

Jonathan Clrk's private press
Box 1

Ashendene Press

Box 1

Archway Press

Box 1

The Art Center School

Box 1

Arion Press

Box 1

Art Center College of Design

Box 1

Arizaona State University Press

Box 1

The Ark Press

Box 8

Austin Book Collections

Box 1

Atelier Press

Box 1

The Banyan Press

Box 1

Barcham Green

General

Handmade Papers
Box 1

Barre Publishers

Box 1

Bauhaus Archiv

General

Museum of Berlin
Box 1

Bean Creek Press

General

The Waygoose Society
Box 1

Beeche

Box 1

Berkeley Albion

Box 1

Berliner

Box 1

Between Hours Press

Box 1

Bibliographical Sociey of the University of VA

Box 1

Bird and Bull Press

Box 1

Black Cat Press

Box 1

Black Rock Press

Box 1

Black Stone Pres

Box 1

Black Sparrow Press

Box 1

Black Vine Press

Box 1

Boston Book and Art Shop

Box 1

Bruce Whiteman

Box 1

Bottle of Smoke Press

Box 1

Brace and Company

Box 1

The Brick Row Book Shop

General

Antiquarian Book Shop
Box 1

Book Club of California

General

See box 8 (oversize)
Box 1

Brooklyn Artists Alliance

Box 1

Bor Zachrisson

General

Grafiska Instituel
Box 1

The Black Cat Gallery

Box 1

The Black Rose Press

Box 1

The Bibliographical Society (New Haven)

Box 1

The Bieler Press

Box 1

The Bon Wheelwright Company

Box 1

The Boston Photogravure Company

Box 1

Bradley Hutchinson The Brick Row Book Shop

Box 1

Buncholtz Gallery

Box 2

Caliban Press

Box 2

The California Historical Society

Box 2

Carol Barton

Box 2

Carolee Campbell

Box 2

Center for the Book

General

Mills College
Box 2

Chanticleer Press

Box 2

Charlemagne Alcuin Press

Box 2

Chelonidae Press

Box 2

Cherryburn Press

Box 2

Chiswick Press

Box 2

Christ Church Cranbrook

Box 2

The Civil War Round Table

Box 2

The Clark (UCLA)

Box 2

The Clinker Press

Box 2

Clements Library Associates

Box 2

Clover Hill

Box 2

Club of Old Volumes

General

Boston
Box 2

Codex Foundation

General

See box 8 (oversize)
Box 2

Colt Press

Box 2

Colorado College Press

Box 2

Coffee House Press

Box 2

Columbia University Press

Box 2

Common Press

Box 2

Connecticut Nutmeg

Box 2

Countrylife Press

Box 2

Countryman Press

Box 2

Cornell University Press

Box 2

Cook, Gordon Scott

Box 2

Convici - Friede

Box 2

The Creekside Press

Box 2

Cuckoo Hill Press

Box 2

Cummington Press

Box 2

Cuneo Press

Box 2

Curren Press

Box 2

Dailey Rare Books

Box 2

Dawson's Book Shop

Box 2

David Lewis, Inc.

Box 2

The Derrydale Press

Box 2

Diamant Typographic Service, Inc.

Box 2

Didiermutel

Box 2

Doolittle

Box 2

Double Crown Club

Box 2

Douglas C. McMurtrie

Box 2

Doran & Co. , Inc.

Box 2

Dropmore Press

Box 2

Dryden Press

Box 2

Eastern Corporation

Box 2

Eden Hill Press

Box 2

Editions Schlechteer

Box 2

Edward Eberstadt

Box 2

Elkus Press

Box 2

The Elizabeth Press

Box 2

Einladung zur Eroffung

Box 2

The Elm City Press

Box 2

Elysium Press

Box 2

Estienne Family Tree

Box 2

Fleece Press

Box 2

The Fleuron Press

Box 2

The Fine Press Association

Box 2

The Fingernail Moon Press

Box 2

French Publishing Corporation

Box 2

F. Roberts

Box 2

The Frick Collection

Box 8

Gaylord Schaniler

Box 2

The Galleries at 251 Post Street

Box 2

Gehenna Press

Box 8

Gloria Stuart

Box 2

The Georgian Press

Box 2

Graphic Arts ABC

Box 2

Gray Dawn Press

Box 2

Gilgia Press

Box 2

The Golden Eagle Press

Box 2

Goose-Pimble Press

Box 2

Gogrragog Press

Box 2

Grace Hopper Press

Box 2

Douglas Howell

Box 2

H.M. Teich

Box 2

The Harbor Press

Box 2

Harris Seybold Company

Box 2

Harvard University Press

Box 2

Havillah Press

Box 2

Hawthorn House

Box 2

Heavenly Monkey Press

Box 3

Henry Evans Print Shop

Box 3

Henry Schuman

Box 3

Herbert W. Simpson

Box 3

The heritage Press

Box 3

The Heron Press

Box 3

Henry A. Levinson

Box 3

The Hill and Dale Press

Box 3

Holland Fair

Box 3

Houghton Mifflin Company Publishers

Box 3

The Horn Book Inc.

Box 3

Hyperion Art Books

Box 3

Imprint Society

Box 3

Inanna Press

Box 3

Indianna Kid

Box 3

Incline Press

Box 8

Invisible City Press

Box 3

Internationale Gutenberg

Box 3

Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Limited

Box 3

James L. Weygand

Box 3

Japan Printing Company

Box 3

Job Printing

Box 3

John Lester Paper Company

Box 3

Jones

Box 3

Joshua Heller

Box 3

Junto

Box 3

J.W. Edwards

Box 3

Kalamazoo Arts Center

Box 3

Kat Ran Press

Box 3

Kelyn Press

Box 3

Ken Smith Publishing

Box 3

Kingspor Museum

Box 3

Kungliga Biblioteket

Box 3

Laboratory

Box 3

Labrynth Editions

Box 3

The Lakeside Press Galleries

Box 3

Lead Graffiti Letterpress Design

Box 3

Left Coast Press

Box 3

Levinson Advertisments

General

Williams College
Box 3

The Chapin Library

Box 3

Library of the Century Association

Box 3

Library of Congress

Box 3

The Library School of The New York Public Library

Box 3

The Library Quarterly

Box 3

Louisiana State University Press

Box 3

Linotype News

Box 3

Press of the Little Red Hen

Box 3

Lucie Lambert

Box 3

Limited Editions Club

Box 3

Lynn Ward

General

Hotel Press
Box 3

The Madson New York

Box 3

Her Majesty the Queen Purveyors or Rare Books

Box 3

Magpie Press

Box 3

Maitland-Drake Company

Box 3

Maureen Cumins

Box 3

The Marchbanks Press

Box 3

Margret Lock

Box 3

The Marion Press

Box 3

Mark Samuels Lasner Collection

Box 3

Maret, Russell

Box 3

Kirk Maetin

Box 3

The Marriott Library Book Program

Box 3

The Maryland Historical Society

Box 3

MASS MoCA

Box 3

Mergenthalfr Linotype Company

Box 3

Mermaid Press

Box 3

Meridian Press

Box 3

Merrymont Press

Box 3

Midwestern Book Competition

Box 3

Minotaur Press

Box 3

Mohak Paper Mills, Inc.

Box 3

The Mosher Press

Box 3

Moving Parts Press

Box 4

The Museum of Modern Art

Box 4

Nash Ephemera

Box 4

New Directions

Box 4

New Laboratory

Box 4

The new York Public Library

Box 4

The Press of the NightOwl

Box 4

Ninja Press at Twenty

Box 4

Nonsuch Press

Box 4

Norman H. Strouse

Box 4

Northland Press

Box 4

Nova

Box 4

The Offhand Press

Box 4

Officina Bodoni

Box 4

OK

Box 4

One Heart Press

Box 4

Oswald Press

Box 4

Oriole Press

Box 4

Lewis Osborne

Box 4

Oxford University Press

Box 4

Pacific Center for the Book Arts

Box 4

Paper Publications

Box 4

The Parker Press

Box 4

Peacock Press

Box 4

Pear Tree Press

Box 4

Pegasus Press

Box 4

Pellegrini & Cudahy

Box 4

Peter Kavanagh

Box 4

Peter Koch Printer

Box 4

Peter Pauper Press

Box 4

Pequeno Press

Box 4

Philip C. Duschnes

Box 4

Philip and Fanny Duschnes

Box 4

Pentegram Press

Box 4

Pennyroyal Press

Box 4

Pentyegram Press

Box 4

The Printer of Cranbrook

Box 4

The Printing Museum

Box 4

Pierre Beres, Inc.

Box 4

Plain Wrapper Press

General

Pike Press
Box 4

Willard Goodwin Press

Box 4

Pinson Printers

Box 4

Pitman Publishing Corporation

Box 4

Pittsburgh Blibliophiles

Box 8

Poets Pulling Press

Box 4

Pottroon Press

Box 4

The Printing House of Leo Hart

Box 4

Perishable Press Books

Box 4

Pomegranate Press

Box 4

Pickering Press

Box 4

Prairie Press

Box 4

Primavera Press

Box 4

Priscilla Juvelis

Box 4

Princeton University Press

Box 4

The Printery

Box 4

The Privateer Press

Box 4

Purgatory Pie Press

Box 4

Quelquefois Press

Box 4

The Rampant Lion Press

Box 4

The Rare Book Review

Box 5

The Ray Nash Press

Box 5

Red Angel Press

Box 5

Red Charming Press

Box 5

Reed, Philip

Box 5

Richard J. Hoffman

Box 5

Robert Bringhurst

Box 5

Robin Price

Box 5

Robert Schaeffer and Seraphim Press

Box 5

The Rosemary Press

Box 5

The Rosenbach Press

Box 5

R.R. Bowker Company

Box 5

The Royal Printing Office

Box 5

Roycroft Press

Box 5

Rutgers University Press

Box 5

Russel Maret

Box 5

Quail Press

Box 5

Rocket Press

Box 5

Bruce Rodgers

Box 5

Rollins, Carol Purrington

Box 5

23 Sandy Gallery

General

See box 8 (oversize)
Box 5

Salt House

Box 5

Salisbury Club

Box 8

San Francisco Center for the Book

Box 5

Scala Fine Arts Publishing

Box 5

Santa Susana Press

Box 5

Schroder Trust Company

Box 5

Scranton Press

Box 5

Scott McCarney

Box 5

Scripps College Press

Box 5

Seamark Press

Box 5

Seven Gables Bookshop

Box 5

The Sharkespeare Society of America

Box 5

Slojdforeningens Skola

Box 5

Stagecoach Press

Box 5

Star Thistle Press

Box 5

Stratford Press

Box 5

Silver Buckle Press

Box 5

Silverado Press

Box 5

Silver Quoin

General

Fleece Press
Box 5

Simon Lawrence

Box 5

Simon, Joseph

Box 5

Spring Valley Press

Box 5

Standard

Box 5

Stephan Daye

Box 5

Stern and Faye Printers

Box 5

The Stephan Greene Press

Box 5

The Stevens

Box 5

Still Point

Box 5

Stone House

Box 5

Spiral Press

Box 5

Stover, Dean

Box 5

Stuart Bennett

Box 5

The Stratford Press

Box 5

The Sunhill Press

Box 5

The Sunshine Press

Box 5

Sutton Hoo Press

Box 5

Taylor and Taylor Printers

Box 5

Tern Press

Box 5

Thornwillow Press

Box 5

Traders Press

Box 5

The Trianon Press

Box 5

Two Hands Press

Box 5

Two Ponds Press

Box 5

The Type Shop

Box 6

Typographeum

Box 6

Under Pressure Press

Box 6

Union Square Press

Box 6

University of Cambridge

Box 6

The University of Chicago

Box 6

Duke University

Box 6

Indiana University

Box 6

The University of Nevada

Box 6

The University of North Carolina Press

Box 6

The University of Oklahoma Press

Box 6

The Unviversity of Texas

Box 6

USC Fine Press

Box 6

Vamp and Tramp

Box 8

Vero Press

Box 6

The Veritone Company

Box 6

Veronika Schapers

Box 6

W.A. Dwiggins

Box 6

Walter Schatzki

General

Boston
Box 6

S.D. Warren Company

Box 6

Warwick

Box 6

Waygoose Society

Box 6

Weatherbird Press

Box 6

Wesleyan

Box 6

Whiteknight

Box 6

Women's Studio Workshop

Box 6

Will Ransom

Box 6

Windhover Press

Box 6

Windell

Box 6

Wind River Press

Box 6

Wild and Stevens, Inc.

Box 6

Wittenborn & Company

Box 6

Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc.

Box 6

The Whittington Press

Box 6

W. Thomas Taylor

Box 6

Wofford Library Press

Box 6

Wolseley Fine Press

Box 6

Women's Graphic Center

Box 6

Pres of the Woodley Whale

Box 6

Yale Center for the British Arts

Box 8

Zamarano Cluc

Box 6

Yellow Barn Press

Box 6

Zur Nacht Der Museen

Box 7

Miscellaneous

General

See box 8 (oversize)