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William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection

 Collection
Identifier: GRA 0115
Abstract

The William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection comprises 12,870 printed bookplates dating primarily from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, many of which were from the libraries of famous individuals or produced by significant artists. The collection also contains additional material relating to Brewer's collection, including Mrs. Augusta LaMotte Brewer's address book and printing plates and blocks, as well as reference material relating to bookplates.

Dates: circa 1700-2000

Austin Dobson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0644
Abstract The Austin Dobson collection comprises approximately six linear feet plus oversize material of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, contracts, royalty statements, artwork, photographs, wills, genealogies, periodicals, clippings, scrapbooks, copper plates, and printed ephemera. The collection documents the work and life of English author and civil servant (Henry) Austin Dobson (1840-1921) and the management of Dobson's estate and literary legacy by his youngest son, Alban Dobson (1885-1962)...
Dates: 1762-1999; Majority of material found within 1861-1962

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Geoffrey Wakeman Plough Press collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0554
Abstract

The Geoffrey Wakeman Plough Press collection consists of the records of the Plough Press and the works and research materials of the Plough Press's founder, English printer and author Geoffrey Wakeman. The Plough Press's publications, reprints, and original works by Wakeman and others pertain to print culture, particularly printers and printing, illustration processes, binding, and paper.

Dates: 1655-1996; Majority of material found within 1970-1993

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983

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Correspondence 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 3
Printing plates 3
Address books 2
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Black-and-white photographs 2
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Broadsides (notices) 2
Commonplace books 2
Drawings (visual works) 2
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Editors (assembling, revising) 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Estate inventories 2
Galley proofs 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Notebooks 2
Page proofs 2
Poets 2
Printers (people) 2
Proofs (printed matter) 2
Scrapbooks 2
Silhouettes 2
Stationery 2
Studio portraits 2
Type specimens 2
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Agents (commercial representatives) 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Armorial bookplates 1
Art in bookplates 1
Artists (visual artists) 1
Artists' books 1
Artists' books (books) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors and publishers--20th century 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence 1
Authors, English--19th century 1
Authors, English--20th century 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
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Bibliographers 1
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Book industries and trade--United States--History--20th century 1
Book jackets 1
Bookbinding--England--History 1
Bookbinding--Specimens 1
Booklets 1
Bookplates--Collectors and collecting 1
Books 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Bumper stickers 1
Business cards 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
California--History--1950- 1
Calligraphy (visual works) 1
Caricatures 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
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Color photographs 1
Color printing--Great Britain--History--19th century 1
Contracts 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Essayists 1
Essays 1
Exhibition catalogs 1
Fairs 1
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Names
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Berlin, Lucia 1
Bly, Robert 1
Brakhage, Stan 1
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Brewer, William Augustus, 1863-1931 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Burke, Clifford 1
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cranium Press 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
D.C. Heath and Company 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dobson, Alban, 1885- 1
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921 1
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921--Bibliography 1
Docker, Frances 1
Dorn, Edward 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 1
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hermes Free Press 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kyger, Joanne 1
London, Rick 1
Macmillan & Co. 1
McClure, Michael 1
Myers, Michael, 1948-1982 1
Oak Knoll Press 1
Oppenheimer, Joel, 1930-1988 1
Oxford University Press 1
Partridge, Bernard, 1861- 1
Plough Press 1
Plough Press USA 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Raworth, Tom 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Rusk, Robert 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sky, Gino 1
Snyder, Gary, 1930- 1
Spring Creek Typesetting Service 1
Teter, Holbrook 1
Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920 1
Turtle Island Foundation 1
Wakeman, Frances 1
Wakeman, Geoffrey 1
Wakeman, Paul 1
Welch, Lew 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wiley, William T., 1937- 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Zephyrus Image (Firm) 1
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