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cloth. Spiral Press (illustratore). 8vo. cloth. 196 pages. While preparing an exhibition to accompany the 1997 Dartmouth Book Arts Summer Workshop, "Joseph Blumenthal and the Spiral Press," Mr. Cronenwett discovered that there was no standard bibliography of The Spiral Press. Since that time, Mr. Cronenwett has exhaustively researched and examined the holdings of many collections to compile this checklist of more than 600 items. The bibliography lists the press's monographs, pamphlets, exhibition catalogs and all publications relating to printing arts. This APHA publication will be an important research tool to literary and printing history scholars and collectors. The significance of The Spiral Press to American letters and cultural history is underscored by the items listed in the bibliography. Joseph Blumenthal designed and printed for Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Institutions counted among the press's clients were The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Morgan Library, The Grolier Club and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. The press is also extremely significant to printing history in America. As a printer, Joseph Blumenthal set standards that are unequalled for dedication to the details of fine printing and design. His proprietary typeface, Spiral, was admired by the Monotype Corporation and adapted as "Emerson" for commercial book composition. In his later years, Blumenthal prepared a series of exhibitions on fine printing in America and Europe. He wrote and taught, sharing his passion for the book. To him the book was "a prime cultural heritage. Poetry, knowledge and the aspirations of mankind have been spread by the book to the whole of society." The book has 196 pages containing more than two dozen reproductions of Spiral Press pages. These are offset-printed, in additional colors where appropriate, at the Studley Press. The book is casebound in a fine imported cloth over boards and issued in an edition of 500 copies.

cloth. Spiral Press (illustratore). 8vo. cloth. xvi+(i), 175+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies, set in Baskerville and Bulmer types on Mohawk Superfine paper. Designed by Jerry Kelly. A checklist of 619 monographs, most pamphlets, all exhibition catalogues, and all publications relating to the printing arts. Omitted are most ephemera, as well as dust jackets printed for other publications, and most holiday greeting cards, with the exception of those done for Robert Frost (from 1934 to 1962) and the Blumenthals. The Spiral Press printed more than a dozen titles for the Limited Editions Club, the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art, poetry by Frost, William Carlos Williams, and W.H. Auden, the public papers of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and many works illustrated by Ben Shahn, Wanda Gag, Leondard Baskin, Fritz Eichenberg, Antonio Frasconi, and others. Every piece of Spiral Press printing received the direct attention of Joseph Blumenthal, making it one of the greatest printing houses of twentieth century America. The notation "AIGA 50 Books (date)" after an entry indicates that the volume was recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of its 50 Books of the Year. Illustrated throughout, with a portrait photograph as frontispiece.

A bibliographical checklist. Pp. xvi+176(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, 8 hand-tipped specimens, several full page illustrations (some tinted or coloured), title page decoration printed in grey, index; qr. maroon buckram, the spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards, upper board decorated in gilt; within black card slipcase with one small surface graze; The American Printing History Association, New York, 2002. Edition limited to 1000 copies; this one of 50 thus bound and with the tipped-in specimens being original examples printed at the Spiral Press; out-of-series (not numbered or signed). *Founded by Joseph Blumenthal and George Hoffman in 1926, the Spiral Press printed works for the Limited Editions Club and the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, as well as poetry by Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and W. H. Auden.