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The Third Exhibition of
American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, 1872-1929
Collected and Described by Richard Minsky

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The Holy Cross
Design by Louis J. Rhead, 1893

300 DESIGNS NOT SHOWN IN THE PREVIOUS TWO EXHIBITIONS

If you missed the first exhibition, copies of the catalog are still available.

You may be able to read a copy of the first or second catalog at a library near you.
Look at the list of institutions that have the catalog in their collection.


EGYPT
Design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, 1892
Vellum stamped in gold (bright spot is reflection of light)
Also issued in brown stamped suede.

The list of cover artists is still being formed as research continues on the bindings in this exhibition. Those cataloged to date  include the following (artists not in the previous two exhibitions are teal):

Margaret Armstrong
Seymour Ball
Thomas Watson Ball
Albert D. Blashfield
Franklin Booth
Paul Bransom

Alfred Brennan
Tom Browne
Charles Livingston Bull
Jay Chambers
Harry Cimino
Evelyn W. Clark
Thomas Maitland Cleland
Earl Stetson Crawford
William Mather Crocker
Clyde E. Darr

The Cx Designer
The Decorative Designers
Margaret Eckerson
George Wharton Edwards
Adam Empie
George Allan England
Charles Buckles Falls

Walter W. Fawcett
Dan Sayre Grosbeck
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Frederick W. Gookin
F. C. Gordon
Frederic W. Goudy
Alberta Hall
George Hawley Hallowell
Theodore Brown Hapgood
Mabel Harlow
Stuart Hay
Frank Hazenplug
Edward Stratton Holloway
George W. Hood
L. B. Humphrey
Adrian Iorio
William James Jordan
Rockwell Kent
F. R. Kimbrough
Frederick Lowenheim
Blanche McManus Mansfield
Harry B. Matthews
Alice C. Morse
Florence Pearl (England) Nosworthy
Marion L. Peabody

Victor Perard

Mary E. Phillips
Maurice B. Prendergast
Howard Pyle
Amy Rand
Ethel Reed
Louis J. Rhead
Amy Richards
Rome K. Richardson
Rachel Robinson
Bruce Rogers
Amy Sacker
Julius A. Schweinfurth
Frank Berkeley Smith
W. E. B. Starkweather
Bertha Stuart
Lee Thayer
Paul Verburg
Sarah Wyman Whitman
F. C. Yohn

There are three versions of this catalog being planned for publication in 2010.

As with previous editions, Subscribers will have access to a private website while the book is being produced, with images of all the covers added as they are imaged and cataloged This site also will have the archive of Subscribers Newsletters, with details and anecdotes about the designs, and the continually updated database file of the collection for download by subscribers. There are also 19th century reference items that have been converted to PDF format.

Librarians use this information 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 information to purchase the few remaining copies of books that are available.


The catalog will be issued in three formats to complement the editions of the first and second volumes.

1.Deluxe Edition limited to 25 signed and numbered copies with color photos of 300 designs that are not in the first two volumes, 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 two catalogs, and will be in the 13" x 9.5" format. The CD-ROM accompanies the book in a separate plastic case.
$1,500.00

Subscription to the Deluxe Edition of
The Third Exhibition of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings
$1,500.00

2. Limited Edition printed on an Indigo 5000 digital offset press 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.
$750.00

Pre-publication Discount Subscription to the Limited Edition of
The Third Exhibition of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings

$750.00

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.
$90.00

Pre-publication Subscription to the CD-ROM Edition of
The Third Exhibition of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings

$90.00

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