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Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was one of the first American artists to make a career of book cover design. From 1880 to 1904 she designed around 300 book covers, mostly for Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Her covers sold books so well that the publisher mentioned her name as the cover designer in its advertisements.
Posted in: Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Read all about GCCS intern Mary Lawrence's summer at the Library of Congress, and the preservation treatments and practices she experienced.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Internships, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections, Uncategorized
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) was one of the most successful book design artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She designed more than three hundred covers, mostly for Scribner during a period beginning in the 1870s that has been called the Golden Age of Book Design.
Posted in: Rare Books and Special Collections