[Rarebooks] FS: Lot of Amusing Anthoensen Press Ephemera

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

13 Piece Lot of Anthoensen Press Ephemera Announcing Their Summer Vacation-

Portland, Maine: 1949-1984

DISCUSSION: This interesting lot includes the often humorous Summer
Vacation announcements for the years 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1959,
1960, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1983, and 1984, as well as a single sheet
announcement of a disastrous fire that partially destroyed the Press in
1970.  Many of the pieces make innovative or humorous use of typographic
ornaments.  Each piece is pictured below.

“The Anthoensen Press was founded in 1875 as the Southworth Press by the
Rev. Francis Southworth. Fred Anthoensen, hired in 1901 as compositor,
was, by 1917,the Press's managing director. In 1934, the firm became the
Southworth-Anthoensen Press, and in 1944, the Anthoensen Press. After
Anthoensen's death in 1969, the Press continued under different managers,
including Harry Milliken and Henry C. Thomas who owned the Press until its
closure in 1987. Although the Press printed stationery, catalogs,
brochures and other small-format material, it specialized in books and
pamphlets for private customers including Bowdoin and other colleges, the
Limited Editions Club, Massachusetts Historical Society and other state
and local historical organizations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
other museums, and several small or specialty publishers. It printed
maritime histories, genealogies, fine press productions and journals like
the New England Quarterly, and also books by prominent book designers such
as W.A. Dwiggins, Bruce Rogers, George Macy and Fred Anthoensen himself -
included A.S. Rosenbach's Early American Childrens' Books, the Isaac W.
Dyer's Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's Writings ... and first editions of
works by Marianne Moore and Stephen Vincent Benet. The press had an
international reputation for fine printing and served the printing needs
of learned institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Bowdoin, the Boston
Athenaeum, Peabody Museum, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.”

DESCRIPTION: Cards and folding cards. Sizes range from 5"x3.5" to 6"x13".

CONDITION NOTES: Some scattered soil and wear (please see the photos).

PRICE: $325. -

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