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Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Pollio The Fourth Eclogue by Virgil, The Parable of the Sower, The Price of Printing by Hand, 1930; and The Frankeleyn's Tale

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series I.
Scope and Content From the File:

This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, designs, and miscellaneous printed ephemera related to the activities of Wilder Bentley and his work with the Archetype Press. Also included are materials related to his non-printing endeavors and to his friends and colleagues.

Dates: 1930-1944, undated

Works Published at his Press: Broadsides and Pamphlets

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series I.
Scope and Contents note

(Carol, 1938 (William Austin); Psalm XXIII/ A Psalm of King David, 1936; The Printer's Mistress to his Wife (Barbara Cowles); Snowfall, 1931 (Giosue Carducci); The Nativity, 1942 (Giles Fletcher the Younger); The Wise Men and the Shepherds, 1944 (Sidney Godolphin); Harbor and City of Monterey, 1938 (George Harding); Birthday Piece of Porter Garnett (Walter Leuba); Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, 1943 (John Milton); Hirose Tanso to a Friend, 1937).

Dates: 1930-1944, undated

Reviews of Press Books

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series I.
Scope and Contents note

(newspaper clippings from New England Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times Book Review)

Dates: 1930-1944, undated