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...important, for the friendly clerk was Lewis Hatch, who became a great bibliophile and continued to befriend the young window-gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
...hundred finely printed books, made by philip Hofer, '21. The library has for at least two decades had an active interest in modern printing, of which the Charles Eliot Norton library contained a number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor Sachs gave his collection of the work of Bruce Rogers, that Typography was recognized as a distinct subject for which the library ought to provide...
...Hofer's gift includes valuable and important additions to the Library's collection of books from the press of Bruce Rogers, from the Merrymount Press of D. B. Updike, from the Kelmscott Press of William Morris from the Ashendene Press, from the Grolier Club, and from the Nonesuch and other contemporary presses. These books will be shown in the Treasure Room by means of exhibits which will be changed approximately every week...
...beautiful book was lost until William Morris, a great student and designer of books, revived the art. He started the experiment by founding the "Kelmscott Press" in 1891. Many other presses such as the "Ashendene Press," "Doves Press," "Kelmscott Press," "Essex House Press," and in this country the "Merrymount" and "Riverside Presses," were founded soon afterward...
...Eliot Norton. The Christmas books of this collection are also shown. They include Miss Amy Lowell's copy of the "Christmas Epithalamium," by Hervey Allen. Only 20 copies of this edited were printed, in garamond Italic type with decorations in red. Miss Lowell also collected Christmas cards from the Merrymount Press. These wood engravings by Ruzicika, who is considered the best carver of coloured wood prints in the United States, are a feature of the exhibit...