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Pre-publication Discount Subscriptions
are
now available for the catalog of
The
Second Exhibition of
American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, 1872-1929
Collected and Described
by Richard Minsky
(click the title above to view the gallery installation)
PRICES WILL INCREASE May 1, 2008 :: SCROLL DOWN FOR DETAILS
If you missed the first exhibition, copies of the catalog are still available.
You may be
able to read a copy of the first catalog at a library near you.
Look at the list of institutions
that have the catalog in their collection.
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Below is the list of currently identified cover artists in this exhibition. Names in teal are artists who were not represented in the previous catalog.
Subscribers also have access to a private website while the book is being produced, with images of all the covers that have been scanned or photographed. This site also has the archive of Subscribers Newsletters, with details and anecdotes about the designs as they are catalogued. It has the current database file of the collection for download by subscribers. There are also 19th century reference items that have been converted to PDF format.
Please use the online ordering or subscription form below.
You can also see samples of the Subscribers Newsletter and the Subscribers Website. The catalog is available in three formats to complement the editions of the first volume.
1.Deluxe Edition 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 by Richard
Minsky, based on a cover design in this edition. This will
be a different design than the first catalog, and will be in the 13" x 9.5" format. The CD-ROM
is included in a separate plastic case, not mounted in the back
cover as in the first volume.
2. Limited Edition with the same text as the Deluxe Edition, but in the slightly smaller 12" x 9" format, in a paper cover, an archival inkjet printed dust wrapper, and polyester protective overwrap. Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. The CD-ROM is included in a separate plastic case.Publication Price $650.00
3. 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
small images of
every book is on the disk, the archive of Subscribers' Newsletters, and some
19th century references that we have converted to PDF for easy viewing.
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There are three
versions of this
catalog being planned for publication in the fall of 2008.
The pre-publication discount subscription price indicated is the final payment and not a deposit. No further
payment is due upon publication. 
Librarians
use the information from each Newsletter to
remove books from circulation and bring them to the Special Collections
environment, saving them from further wear or loss. Curators,
collectors and dealers use the flow of information to
purchase the few
remaining copies of books that are available.
At present
there are 300 designs and variants that were not in the first collection. Many of
these are hard to find in decent condition.
The
Advance Pre-Publication Subscription Prices below are valid through May
31, 2008. On June 1, 2008 the prices will increase. Each
month thereafter the price increases until it reaches the publication day
price. The publication price is subject to change. A pre-publication subscriber's
price will not increase even if the publication price increases.