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Below is the list of identified cover artists in the second exhibition. Names in teal are artists who were not represented in the previous catalog. There are 300 designs and variants that were not in the first collection.

Margaret Armstrong
Thomas Watson Ball
Franklin Booth
Alfred Brennan
Bert Cassidy
Jay Chambers
Evelyn W. Clark
Mary Cowles Clark
Thomas Maitland Cleland
R. Weir Crouch
The Decorative Designers
Maynard Dixon
H. T. Dunn
Eaton, Mary E.
George Wharton Edwards
A. B. Frost
Charles Buckles Falls
Julia Furbush
Alice R. Glenny

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Frederick W. Gookin
Alberta Hall
C. Bertram Hartman
George Hawley Hallowell
Theodore Brown Hapgood
C. Bertram Hartman
Frank Hazenplug
A. Hilgenreiner
H. O. Hofman
Edward Stratton Holloway
Robert Wilson Hyde
Wilfred Jones
William James Jordan
Rockwell Kent
Albert Levering
Harold Magonigle
Blanche McManus Mansfield
Ellen Miller
Alice C. Morse

Peter Newell
Samuel M. Palmer
Marion L. Peabody
Edward Penfield
Louis John Rhead
Amy RIchards
Rome K. Richardson
Rachel Robinson
Amy Sacker
Rudolph Schaeffer
John Sloan
Frank Berkeley Smith
Maud Hunt Squire
Bertha Stuart
Lee Thayer
Otto Taospern
Lynd Ward
Stanford White
Sarah Wyman Whitman

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The catalog is available in three formats to complement the editions of the first volume.

Limited Edition 11¾" x 8¾", with a cover adapted from the 1914 Rockwell Kent design on Architec-tonics. The image is a giclée print on canvas, overstamped in 22K gold. It is behind a flexible mat covered in ivory bookcloth. In a Rives BFK paper dust wrapper and polyester protective overwrap. Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. The CD-ROM is included in a separate plastic case.
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CD-ROM Edition with all the text and images of the Deluxe Edition in PDF format and a database including separate fields for title, author, publisher, date, designer, description of binding, variants, and digital images from scans or photographs of all the books. The discs used are MAM-A Gold Archive, which claims a 200+ year data life. A browser-viewable version of the checklist with images of every book is on the disk, the archive of Subscribers' Newsletters, and two 19th century references that we have converted to PDF for easy viewing.
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The Second Exhibition of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings:

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Deluxe Edition 13" x9½" limited to 25 signed and numbered copies with color photos of 300 designs that are not in the original volume, printed in archival high resolution inkjet, in a hardbound cloth binding adapted from the 1914 Rockwell Kent design on Architec-tonics. The image is a giclée print on canvas, overstamped in 22K gold. The panel is mounted in a recess in the cover, which is wrapped in bookcloth imported from Japan. A copy of the CD-ROM Edition is provided in a separate plastic case.
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