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30. (Marion Press) Larremore, Thomas A. and Amy Hopkins.
THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST.
With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by
Joseph W. Rogers. Jamaica, NY: Queens Borough Public Library, 1943, 8vo.,
cloth. xx, 272, (2) pages. $ 450.00
First edition, limited to 228 numbered copies. The Marion Press was founded
by Frank Hopkins, former shop-foreman for Theodore DeVinne. A total of 197
items are described in detail in the book and a 173 page history of the press and
the press movement is given which gives much information on turn of the century
printing. Loosely inserted are two A.L.s. from Larremore (14 pages), in which he
discusses this book among other things. [15751]
31. (Midnight Paper Sales) Schanilec, Gaylord.
EMERSON G. WULLING, PRINTER FOR PLEASURE.
N.P.: Midnight Paper Sales, (2000), large 4to., quarter leather with cloth-covered boards, cloth and paper portfolio with extra
specimens of Wulling’s printing, cloth-covered clamshell case with leather spine label. 71, (4) pages. $ 2,250.00
Printed in an edition limited to 166 numbered and signed copies, of which this is one of only 26 lettered copies of the special edition.
The special edition comes in a quarter leather
binding and includes an extra portfolio of
specimens demonstrating the range of Wulling’s
printing.
A history and bibliography of Emerson
Wulling’s Sumac Press. The text for the
history was transcribed from the tapes from
two interviews with Wulling in 1995 and 1996,
conducted by Schanilec, along with a visit with
the Wullings by Rob Rulon-Miller in 1999.
Wulling was a professor by day and printer by
night, and owned a library which included fine
and interesting printing from all periods and
continents. The bibliography of the Sumac Press
describes well over 200 publications. Finely
printed by Gaylord Schanilec and illustrated
with tipped-in specimens of Wulling’s printing,
25 with color wood engravings by Schanilec,
as well as other color illustrations throughout.
Introduction by Robert Rulon-Miller. The
definitive work on Wulling and his Sumac Press.
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