Patricia England fine print collection

Access and use

Location of collection:: George Mason University

2400 Fenwick Library

Special Collections Research Center

Fenwick Library MS2FL

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030

Contact for questions and access:: POC: Mieko Palazzo

Email: speccoll@gmu.edu

Phone: (703) 993-2220

Fax: (703) 993-2669

Web: scrc.gmu.edu

Restrictions:: There are no access restrictions.
Terms of access:: There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Patricia England fine print collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Preferred citation:: Patricia England fine print collection, C0076, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:: 5 linear ft.; 13 boxes
Creator:: Patricia G. England
Abstract:: This collection contains numerous journals, catalogs, pamphlets, and newsletters on "fine print" (private press) books. Materials include around twenty issues each of the journals "The Book Collector," "Devil's Artisan," "Konglomerati," and nearly forty issues of "The Private Library" as well as promotional pamphlets and ephemera from numerous fine printing presses including Acorn, Arion, Book Club of California, Pennyroyal, and Somesuch Press.
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: Patricia England fine print collection, C0076, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains numerous journals, catalogs, pamphlets, and newsletters on "fine print" (private press) books and material pertaining to the history of book collecting, publishing and printing, including information and/or samples from a number of presses and publishing companies. Materials include around twenty issues each of the journals "The Book Collector," "Devil's Artisan," "Konglomerati," and nearly forty issues of "The Private Library" as well as promotional pamphlets and ephemera from numerous fine printing presses including Acorn, Arion, Book Club of California, Pennyroyal, and Somesuch Press.

Series 1 contains periodicals on book collecting as well as printing practices and history.

Series 2 and 3 contain information and sample materials from a number of printing presses, sorted alphabetically.

Series 4 contains pamphlets and exhibition material from a variety of eras and places.

Series 5 contains broadsides, keepsakes and advertisements from a number of companies and artists. The material in this series is oversized and resides separately from the boxed portion of the collection.

This series contains a number of periodicals and newsletters with information on book collecting and printing history.

Vol. 43, Nos. 3-4; Vol. 44, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 45, Nos. 1-2. 4; Vol. 46, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 47, Nos. 1, 3-4; Vol. 48, No. 1

Vols. 31-40; Vol. 48, Nos. 2-4; Vol. 49, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 50, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 51, Nos. 1-4

Vol. 52, Nos. 1, 3-4; Vol. 53, Nos. 2-4; Vol. 54, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 55, Nos. 1; Vol. 56, nos. 3-4; Vol. 57, Nos. 1-3; Vol. 58, Nos, 1-2

Vol. 31, No. 4; Vol. 32, Nos. 1-3

Vol. 32, No. 4; Vol. 33, Nos. 1-3

Vol. 33, No. 4; Vol. 34, Nos. 1-3 (Vol. 34, No. 1, misnumbered as Vol. 32, No. 1)

Vol. 34, No. 4; Vol. 35, Nos. 1-3

Vol. 35, No. 4; Vol. 36, No. 1-2; The Devil's Artisan, Nos. 5-7

Nos. 8-18

Nos. 19-27

Second Series, Vol. 3, Nos. 3-4; Third Series, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 3, Nos. 1-3

Third Series, Vol. 4, No. 4; Vols. 5-6, Nos. 1-4

Third Series, Vols. 7-10

Fourth Series, Vols. 1-3

Newsletters, Nos. 92-93, 96, 99, 107, 118; Exchange Lists, Nos 92-93, 99, 118; Organization Description; Meeting Agenda

Vol. 1, No. 6; Vol 2, Nos. 1-3

Vol. 7, Nos. 2-3; Vol 8, No. 1; Vol. 14, Nos. 2, 4; Vol. 15, No. 2

This series contains material related to a number of printing presses, including Christmas cards, business cards, brochures, prospectuses, and publication announcements.

Christmas Cards, Invitation to No-Name Book Group

Pamphlet (poetry titles), 2 Publication Announcements (Through the Mother Ditch, Sea Fire)

3 Publication Announcements (Romeo and Juliet, 1988; The Poeticon Atronomicon, 1985; Egypt: Herodotus: Fifth Century B. C., 1989)

Seminar Announcement

Publication Announcement (Collotype)

Brochure with paper samples

Correspondence (notecard), Publication Announcement (Poems by Li Po, 1984)

Invitation, Note on Publication Delays (Ars Poetica, 1989)

Christmas Cards (1983, 1985-1987, 1989), Keepsake (A Wartime Letter from Jane Grabhorn to S/Sgt. Albert Sperisen... 1980), 6 Publication Announcements (le Desert De Retz, 1990; Wallace Stevens Poems, 1985; The Maltese Falcon, 1983; Flatland; The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Cristoph Rilke, 1983; Tristam Shandy, 1988; United States Constitution, 1987

Pamphlet, 2 Publication Announcements (The Typefoundry in Silhouette; The Book of Common Prayer, 1982)

Publication Announcement (The Art of Papermaking, 1976)

Description, Invitation

Publication Announcement (Sorts and Founts, 1983)

Christmas Card, Catalog (984), 5 Publication Announcements (The 24 Doors, 1985; moon, 1983; A Printer's Dozen; Five Small Meditations on Summer and Birds, 1984; The Compleat Melancholick, 1985)

Announcement and Postcard concerning Artsman Organization and Tiller, Publication Announcement (Tiller, Vol. 2, 1984)

Christmas Cards

Invitations

Announcements, Invitations, Memorial for Sherwood Grover, 2 Series of Keepsake Folders (Lithographic Views of California Towns, 1875-1889, 1-10, 1985; Chinese Book Arts and California, 1-12, 1989), 9 Public Announcements (Dan De Quille of the Big Bonanza, 1980; A Trumpet of Our Own, 1981; A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson, 1979; Romualdo Pacheco..., 1985; At the Sign of the lark, 1983; Frank Morrison Pixley..., 1989; Letters to Elizabeth, 1977; Paul Landacre, 1982' The Rhemes New Testament, 1990)

Memorial for Lawton Kennedy, Keepsake (California Printing, Part Two, 1981), 16 Public Announcements (The Log of Apollow, 1986; Art Deco, 1987; Thomas Bewick and the Fables of Aesop, 1983; California Wine-making, 1978; The Grabhorn Press, 1981-82; A Matter of Taste, 1979; Isadora Duncan and Gordon Craig, 1988; Texas Argonauts, 1987; Mexico on Stone, 1984; Edward Vischer's Drawings..., 1982; Themes in Aquatint. 1978; Redwood and Lumbering..., 1983; From Kapuvar to California, 1979; A Book on Gaelic Arts..., 1989; Frank Norris: Collected Letters, 1986; An Artist records the California Missions, 1989)

Invitations, Membership Notifications, Memorial for Joseph M. Bransten

Announcements, Invitations

Publication Announcement (The Song of Songs, with 4 postcards)

Publication Announcement (Anglican Liturgy... - Catalog, 1985)

Christmas Cards (1982-1983), 2 Public Announcements (The Cask of Amontillado, 1981; Shall I Die? Shall I Fly?)

Empty

Catalog Sheet

Christmas Cards for Smith College Library, 2 Publication Announcements (Shaker Herbs, 1984; Of the Small Silver-couloured Book-worm)

Publication Announcement (The Sphinx, 1981)

Publication Announcement (Artistry in Single Action)

Christmas Cards (1985-1986), Series List, 2 Publication Announcements (The Jumping Frog, 1985; The Black Cat, 1984)

Christmas Pamphlet (1982), Invitation, Publication Announcement (The Book of Joseph, 1991)

Catalog associated with Toothpaste Press

Catalogs

Publication Announcement (Northern Interior)

This series contains material related to a number of printing presses, including Christmas cards, business cards, brochures, prospectuses, and publication announcements.

Newsletters, Selected Books in Print Catalogues, 2 Publication Announcements (Rails of the World, Specimen Days)

Publication Announcement (Paul Landacre, 1983)

Publication Announcement (Book Stalking.../ Return to the Heartland, 1987)

Publication Announcement (Halos of Debris)

Keepsake (Psalm XXII)

Publication Announcement (Dante's Inferno, 1993)

Publication Announcement (Tagebuch Der Reise...)

Publication Announcement (Las Piedras del Cielo, 1981)

Books in Print Folder

Invitation

Publication Announcement (Plain John Wiltshire..., 1989)

Invitations

Publication Announcement(The Penetrating Light...)

Invitations

Business Card/ Folder

Exhibition Checklist

Publication Announcement (A Sound Beyond, 1989)

Christmas Cards (1969, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991)

Publication Announcement (Firebird)

Advertisement for Program at Center for Typographic Language, List of Books (1992-1993 Publication), 3 Publication Announcements (Book One by Horace, 1981; A Search for the Typographic Form of Plato's Phaedrus, 1979)

Catalog

Invitations

Christmas Cards (1982, 1984, 1993), Card Relating to 1989 Earthquake, Publication Announcement (Sources)

Publication Announcement (Mulberry Women, 1982)

Publication Announcement (Uncle E's Lessons...)

Christmas Cards (1981, 1982, 1984), Titles in Print, Address Slip, Birth Announcement

Booklist

Business Card/ Folder

Publication Announcement (The Elston Press..., 1997)

Catalog

Publication Announcement (Linocuts of edward B. Heffernan, 1982)

Publication Announcement (Alphabetarium, 1982)

Business Cards

Poetry Catalog, Publication Announcement (Father Abraham, 1983)

2 Publication Announcements (Just Such a Time; The Stone Beloved)

Artwork Offer

Catalog

Publication Announcement (Arcades)

Christmas Cards for Steven Corey (1989), Business Cards, Invitation for Nob Hill Association (1982)

Catalog, 2 Publication Announcements (Florida Poems, Catnip Pie)

Publication Announcement (Arcades)

Christmas Card

Catalogue

Publication Announcement (The Moon Dies, 1982)

Catalog

Brochure

Publication Announcement (The View)

Correspondence, 2 Publication Announcements (The Fates of Rocks and Trees; Apology for Bad Dreams, 1986)

Chrismas Cards, Series Catalogs, Newsletters

Publication Announcement (Purifying the Language of the Tribe)

Correspondence, Five Trees Press Ephemera Catalog, 3 Publication Announcements (Chimera Broadsides series, The Indians in the Woods, Red Light with Blue Sky)

Catalog, 5 Publication Announcements (Small Hymns; Shaving at Night, 1982; Cracked Open; Leon; Black Waters)

Publication Announcement (Poster by Lance Hidy, 1988)

Publication Announcement (Thomas Bewick)

Catalog, Correspondence, 3 Publication Announcements (The Rain, 1985; Fair Entry, 1990; The Hand Correspondence, 1990)

Keepsake Printed for Roxburghe Club

Invitation

Card

Publications Announcement (Still Life and Other Poems, 1987)

Invitations

Project Catalog

Books in Print List, Catalogs, Newsletter, Advertisement for Notecards, Publication Announcement (Face to Face - series of engravings)

Catalogs (1976, 1980), 2 Advertisements for Moser Engraving Pieces, 5 Publication Announcements (Frankenstein, 1984; The Robber Bridegroom, 1987; Man in a Metal Cage, 1977; Eve, Singing, 1976; Above the Oxbow [reads "Catawba Press])

Correspondence, Lithograph Reproductions, Catalogs, Artist Resume, Publication Announcement (Aubade, 1980)

Valentine Card, Books in Print List, 2 Publication Announcements (Good Evening and Other Poems, Keeping the Night)

Invitation (1981), Memorial for Agnes Lynch Starrett (1988)

Correspondence, Article, Description, Publication Announcement (Will and Testament)

Publication Announcement (Patterns and Pigments in English Marbled Papers, 1988)

Invitation

Publication Announcement (Tattoo Parlor...)

Wine Label, Publication Announcement (The Swing)

Invitation

2 Publication Announcements (Adam and Eve, The Man Who Loved Islands)

2 Publication Announcements (My New Mexico Literary Friends; Broncho vs. Bicycle, 1987)

Catalog

Publication Announcement (Maya)

Publication Announcement (The Warrington Poems, 1989)

Catalog

Publication Announcement (Root and Sky)

Christmas Card

Correspondence, Publication Announcement (Majnun Laila, 1985)

Correspondence, Postcard (1984), Publication Lists (1982, 1983, 1984), Christmas Cards, 4 Publication Announcements (Father Abraham, 1983; Careless Love, 1985; One Day of Happiness, 1982; Looking for Beethoven in Las Vegas, 1983)

Catalog, Publication Announcement (Alice in Wonderland - Series of Engravings [references Macmillan Publishers Ltd.])

Publication Announcement (Old Maid's Folly, Black Venus, and Other Texas legal Tales)

Invitation

Publication Announcement (John A. Sultev's Last Days, 1986)

Catalog

Catalogs

Publication Announcement (Printing Poetry, 1980)

Bookmark Advertisement for Latin Edition of Wizard of Oz, Publication Announcement (Three Stories of the Raj)

Notes, Publication Announcement (Even Money)

Invitation, Business Card, Publication List, 2 Publication Announcements (Reflections on Color, The Circus of Most Inventions)

3 Publication Announcements (Calendar of Ornamental Material; The Significance of the Frontier; O'Ryan's Belt)

Series Announcement (1978), Name Card, 7 Publication Announcements (Little Manvel; The Wars of the Words, 1980; Portraits of the Queen, 1979; Certain Unalienable Rights, 1982; Love, 1983; Christmas Stamps, 1982; Pueblo Art, 1983)

Catalog

Correspondence

Christmas Card

Business Description, Forthcoming Titles Card, Folder

Publication Announcement (A Winter Walk)

Correspondence, Books for Sale Lists (1979), Prospectus for 1977-1985

Books in Print List (1982), New Titles Flyer (1980), Catalogs (1981, 1983), Publication Announcement (A Visit from St. Alphabet)

Stolen and Contaminated Poems

Correspondence, Catalog, 3 Publication Announcements (Devour the Fire; Bromeliaceae Andreanae; With a Heart Full of Love)

2 Publication Announcements (Guillem de Poitou; The Hour of the Bell)

Publication Announcement (A Medieval Mirror, 1984)

Advertisement for Paper Samples

2 Publication Announcements (The Letter of Columbus, Coranto - Periodical)

Keepsake for Book Club of Texas (Reprinted Review of My First Thirty Years), 2 Announcements of Availability for Sale (33 Autograph Letters of John Locke, Shakespeare Head Press The Works), 4 Publication Announcements (Twelve Bindings; Adrian Wilson, 1983; Reprints of Early French and English Binding-Marbling Manuals, 1987; Bruce Rogers, 1988)

Business Card, 2 Publication Announcements (On Becoming Three and Thirty; A Poultry Piece)

Christmas Cards (1985, 1987, 1989), Prospectus for Calligraphy Prings with Miniature Proofs and Photo (1978)

Prospectus, Invitation

Publication Announcement (The Hunting of the Snark, 1981)

Publication Announcement (Ines Reigned in Death, 1988)

2 Publication Announcements (Daily Horoscope; Memoirs of an Ismaric Spear)

Publication Announcement (Who Shot the Bear?, 1984)

Publication Announcement (The Wood-engravings of John Nash)

5 publication Announcements (The Old Printing Office; Dress, 1986; Oscar Wilde: A Problem in Biography; William Morris; Late Verses and Earlier, 1988)

Invitation, Newsletter (Bookfarm, 1985), 7 Publication Announcements (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1984; California Writers of the Land, 1983; Robinson Jeffers; True Bear Stories, 1985; Where Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of Una and Robinson Jeffers, 1987; Cawdor, 1983; Flight, 1984)

This series contains a number of pamphlets, including reprints of much older original works (such as William Caxton), as well as invitations to exhibits, bookplates and keepsakes.

Pamphlet; Subtitled: A Celebration of Libraries; Smith College Library; Contains 2 Essays ("Collecting for Scholars," Adams, Frederick B., Jr.; "The Task of Recollection,": Piel, Gerard)

Pamphlet; Book Arts Press 1981 Reprint of 1732 Original; Foreword by Belanger, Terry

Pamphlet

Pamphlet; Book Arts Press 1975 Reprint of 1735 Original; Foreword by Belanger, Terry

Pamphlet; Book Arts Press 1976 Reprint of 1490 Original; Foreword by Belanger, Terry

Pamphlet; Friends of the Smith College Library

Pamphlet; Syracuse University

Pamphlet; Smith College

Art Book; Subtitled After Korin, 1658-1716; Friedman, Sarah K.; Hosanna Press; Limited Edition, No. 35 of 75; Signed by Artist; Tissue-wrapped in Japanese Paper Envelope, in Standard Envelope

Pamphlet; Smith College

Pamphlet; Subtitled One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn; Library of Congress

Pamphlet; Smith College; Contains 2 Essays and Reproductions of Engravings

Pamphlet; Curtis Paper Company

Pamphlet; Title Continues: No. 7: Petitions and Papers Relating to the Bill of Booksellers; Book Arts Press 1975 Reprint of 1774 Original; Foreword by Belanger, Terry

Pamphlet; Thomace C., III

Pamphlet; Smith College

Pamphlet; Book Arts Press 1976 Reprint of 1828 Original

Pamphlet; Houghton Library, Harvard College

Keepsake, No. 31 in a Series; Friends of the Bancroft Library

Exhibition Catalog; University if Pittsburgh

Keepsake; Title Continues: Artistic Printer, his influence on Napay Valley and California wine labels; Richard A. Gleeson Library

Catalog; Signed by Author

Envelope of Bookplates with names Miller Hunt, Rachel McMasters, Hunt Botanical Library; Single Bookplate reads John Donne Collection of Hamilton Tyler

Press-unidentified Chrismas Cards; Names include Allens, Clarks, Riebels, Vincents, Harvey, Cohens

Note and Announcement; References Presses Arion, Black Stone, and Intersection

Invitations (to Party at "Small Press Traffic" in Honor of a "sombrereptiles" Book, 1984; to Celebration in Honor of Barry Moser Receiving American Book Award, 1983; to Currier Gallery of Art Poster Exhibit, 1985; to Reception at "Susan Caldwell, Inc.," 1983; to Exhibition for the First 10 Years of Moving Parts Press and Greenhouse Review Press, 1987; to an Exhibition of Original Wood Engravings and 49 First Strike Prints with Barry Moser, Glenn Books, 1985; to a Christmas Exhibition of Gifts to the Library at the University of California, Berkeley, 1984; to an Exhibition on Victor Hammer for the Centennial of His Birth, 1982; to an Exhibition of American Book Art from 1980-1983 at the University of Wisconsin Madison, 1983; to an Exhibition of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Mayfield at Georgetown University Library, 1978)

Experiment in Type Cast Referencing Ashley Crawford and Paul Duensing; Card for Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament; Other Printed Material

This series contains oversized broadsides, advertisements and keepsakes

United States Constitution, Preface by Warren Burger, The Arion Press, 1987; Ulysses, with letter from Andrew Hoyem dated May 17, 1988, describing Ulysses by James Joyce and Tristom Shandy by Laurence Sterne.

Dwyer's Bookstore, Printed at Hamshire Typothetae

Small; Image of soldiers and vers "From the old Taver, Grafton, Vermont"

Poem, "The Trumpet Vine" by Toby Olson; Salient Seedling Press

Quotation and Print; Christopher Fry; Charles E. Wadsworth

Poem, Horace; "In memory of Robert Hunter Middleton 1898-1985"

University of San Francisco; "Form and Beyond: Art and Spirituality in Japan"

University of San Francisco; "Victory Through Suffering"

Book Arts Press; "The book Arts Press Thought for Valentines Day"

Printed for the Standing Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the Medieval Academy of America on the Occasion of Their Visit to Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University

Basilisk Press; The Rhinoceros: A Monograph

"The Four Steps to Perfect Wine Making"; Antique Collectors Club; A book of Bestial Nonsense

Exhibit; Dwyer's Gallery; of Moser "drawing and prints for books"

Exhibit and Moser Lecture; Watkinson Library (Trinity); Pennyroyal Press books

Calligraphy Alphabet; Anne O'Connor; J.P. Dwyer, Bookseller

2 Copies; Panel; Folger Library; "Collecting the Book: Public and Private Collections"

Bread and Puppet Circus "Our Domestic Resurrections"

Poem; "Fanfare for Jane"; "k.w."; Five Trees Press

"A Bird's Eye View of the Whittington Press"; Miriam Macgregor; Signed by Macgregor

Arif Press; Sappho: Fragmenta Nova; Signed by Kathryn Clark

Centaur Type and Atlantic Antique Laid Paper Type; Eastern Corporation

Printed on Both Sides; "Le Moulin du Verger de Puymoyen"

2 Copies; Article Extract and Reproduction of Linocut; John R. Smith; Edwards Bawden; Rocket Press

Barry Moser; Folger Library; "Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: A Centenary Celebration"; with reproduction of engraving

Images of Fish with Text; Book Club of Texas; Whitehead and Whitehead (designer); W. Thomas Taylor (printer)

Poem; "Cracked Open"; Barbara Luck; Charles Aquilina (artist); Meadow Press; Limited Editions, No. 30 of 100, signed by author

Cowboy Image and Text; Larry McMurtry; "Printed for the First Annual Meeting of the Book Club of Texas"; Wind River Press

Image of Lion and Donkey Under a Tree; For a Dance in the Newark School

Pennyroyal Press; Through the Looking Glass

Printed with Lines, Volor Blocks, Flower; No Text

In Folder; Text on Centaur type; Eastern Corporation; Appears to Relate to Specimen Sheet also in this Portfolio

Appears to be an unfolded sheet of 7 printed pages containing an introduction and listing of Barry Moser's illustrations for "The California Danate"; No context givent; May relate to the advertisement-announcement for a Moser exhibit at Dwyer's Gallery also in this portfolio.

Text on Aristotle Volume; Printed on the Occasion of the Visit of the Umphrey Lee Associates, The Founders' Society, and the President's Council to Bridwell Library; Numbered 183 of 250

Text and Image Noted as from Book Lenin's Paintings to appear in 1980; Cloud Marauder-Sombre Reptiles (producer); West Coast Print Center (printer)

Type Image and Text; David Goines (artist); Art Directors and Artists Club of Sacramento

Poem; "The Blindman"; May Swenson; Pyramid Atlantic Workshop; Edition of 60, Numbered 9 of the 35 Numbered

Arion Press; Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror; With a Letter Describing the Poster and Book Dated January 12, 1984 by Andrew Hoyem

Biographical / historical:

Patricia G. England is a collector of "fine print" (private press) books.

Acquisition information:

Collection donated by Patricia England in 1993.

Processing information:

Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty in August 2009. Additional EAD markup completed by Tom Duncan in 2010.

Arrangement: