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...lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with illustrations by John Held; "Jaunts and Jollities by Mr. John Jorrick's", produced by the Merrymount Press; and De La Monte's "Undine" with woodcuts by Allen Lewis...
...went to Boston at the age of 21 and set up as a commercial artist. Fascinated by typography, he worked in Boston under the greatest type designer the U. S. has produced, Frederic William Goudy, and under one of the two greatest printers: Daniel Berkeley Updike of the Merrymount Press. (The other: Free Lance Bruce Rogers.) Typographer Dwiggins wrote the advertising agencies' Bible, Layout in Advertising. He has designed several beautiful type faces and for many years has been retained by famed Mergenthaler Linotype Co. as typographical consultant. His passion for fine handwriting caused him to found the Society...
...jury which will decide upon the awards will consist of the following men: John Bianchi, of the Merrymount Press. Boston; N. H. Borden, assistant professor of Advertising at the Harvard Business School; Walter Buchen, president of the Buchen Company, Chicago; Bennett Chapple, vice-president of the American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio: M. T. Copeland, professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School: W. A. Bart, director of advertising at the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company. Wilmington, Delaware: G. C. McQuiston, advertising manager of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: H. B. Quinan, art director...
...contrast is a book which represents pure typography in its most finished form. This is "The First American Bible, Printed at Cambridge in 1663", from the Merrymount Press in Boston. It was printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike, A.M. (hon.) '29, who was for several years a lecturer at Harvard; the text was written by G. P. Winship '93, of the Harvard Library; and all the arrangements for its publication were made by G. T. Goodspeed '25. The binding of this volume is copied from the Harvard copy of the original edition of the John Eliot Indian Bible. An even more...
...unless sale of the book was stopped, testifying to the effective activities of Christian Science Committees on Publication. Author Thompson reminded his readers of the fate of an earlier biography of Mrs. Eddy, The Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, by Adam & Lillian S. Dickey, published in 1927 by the Merrymount Press of Boston. This book was recalled at the behest of the Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston so thoroughly that now only four copies exist...