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Creator:
McKitterick, David
Title(s):
A new specimen book of Curwen pattern papers / David McKitterick.
Published/Created:
Andoversford, Gloucestershire : Whittington Press, [1987]
©1987.
Physical Description:
xii, 105 pages, [6] pages of plates : ilustrations ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z721.3 C53 M35 1987+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Request]

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z721.3 C53 M35 1987+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The five additional full sheets of pattern paper in the portfolio included designs by Enid Marx (1925), Edward Bawden (1936), Thomas Lowinsky (c. 1936), and Elizabeth Friedlander (two designs, c. 1947).
"Edition of 335 copies ... 250 copies are quarter-bound in buckram and Curwen pattern paper, and 85 copies quarter-bound in leather with five additional full sheets of pattern paper."--Colophon.
Bibliography: p. 38-39.
"Paul Nash's introduction to the 1928 'Specimen book'": pages 29-38.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is no. LXXVI of 85 copies bound in quarter leather with five additional full sheets of pattern paper.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is no. XL of 85 copies bound in quarter leather with five additional full sheets of pattern paper.
Subject Terms:
Curwen Press.
Decorative paper -- Specimens.
Endpapers -- Specimens.
Contributors:
Nash, Paul, 1889–1946.
Bawden, Edward, 1903–1989, designer.
Friedlander, Elizabeth, 1903–1984, designer.
Lowinsky, Thomas, designer.
Marx, Enid, 1902–1998, designer.
Whittington Press, publisher.
Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert (Yale Center for British Art)
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