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Chiswick Book Shop

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Chiswick Book Shop records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Chs
Abstract

Correspondence between Herman Cohen of the Chiswick Book Shop and important calligraphers and members of the book trade, including: Dorothy Abbe, Wilfrid Blunt, Elizabeth Downs, Alfred J. Fairbank, Tom Gourdie, Philip Hofer, Anna Hornbye, E. Harold Hugo, Percy Muir, Stanley Pargellis, Nancy Price, Will Ransom, Rudolph Ruzicka, and James M. Wells. Cataloged separately are four folders of Herman Cohen correspondence and notes, call number VAULT Wing MS 21.

Dates: 1952-1958

Herman Cohen correspondence and notes

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-21
Abstract

Correspondence and notes concerning the copy of Isaiah Thomas's A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas, 1785. which was acquired from Cohen's Chiswick Book Shop in 1954 by the Newberry Library. Correspondents include Leslie E. Bliss, John Eliot Alden, R.W.G. Vail, Roland Orvil Baughman, and Philip Hofer.

Dates: 1954

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Booksellers and bookselling 1
Booksellers and bookselling -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831. Specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types 1