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overbrook
44 x 44 mm.
© Overbrook Press
Printer/Publisher: Overbrook Press. Altschul, Frank, 1887-1981
Country: Connecticut (U.S.) City: Stamford Date: 1943
Keywords: trees, bridges, streams, men, mountains
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Device Designer: Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883- .
Device Reference: Weygand, J.L. Collection of pressmarks p. 89
Go to Page: 88 90
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Notes: "This colorful pressmark from Frank Altschul's Overbrook Press was drawn by Rudolph Ruzicka in 1943 for the colophon page of Addresses Delivered Before the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States by Madame Chiang Kai-shek. For the volume, Mr. Ruzicka also provided a hand-drawn title page, and a two-color label for the front cover." © James Lamar Weygand
Source:
Weygand, James Lamar.
A collection of pressmarks gathered from America's private presses and from others not so private.
Nappanee, Ind., Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1956.
Reference:
Location: University of Florida
URL: https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/overbrook2.htm