Cohen, Herman, 1905-1997
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1905-1997
Found in 3 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
Rosenthal/Mardersteig collection
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-RosOB
Abstract
Correspondence and subject files relating to Samuel R. Rosenthal’s collection of the work of Giovanni Mardersteig (1892-1977) and his Officina Bodoni press (1923-1977).
Dates:
1954-1994