Printers & Publishers
- William L. Bauhan Publishing was founded in NYC in 1929 as Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, Inc., primarily focusing on textbooks. It became the Richard R. Smith Publishing, Inc. in the mid-1930s, and was bought and moved to NH in 1959 by William L. Bauhan. The named changed to William L. Bauhan in…
- Special CollectionsWilliam Loeb III (1905-1981) was born on December 26, 1905. He purchased controlling interest in the Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire) in 1949. Professionally Loeb was known as a provocative, conservative newspaper editor. New Hampshire’s…
- Special CollectionsNonny Hogrogian started her career as a designer of children’s books but soon began illustrating and writing. She twice won the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children, in 1966 for Always Room For One More and in 1972 for…
- Special CollectionsSix broadsides: "Rembrandt’s Last Self Portrait" (poem by Charles E. Wadsworth; wood engraving by Lance Hidy; "The Beautiful Young Devon Shorthorn Bull. Sexton Hyades 33rd" (by Leslie Norris; lino-cut by Charles E. Wadsworth; "On Chick-A-Dee Mis-…
- Special CollectionsThe Sceptre Press, owned by Martin Booth, began at Frensham, Surrey, England in 1969. Its first publication was a broadside of a poem by Alan Brownjohn entitled “Being a Garoon." The press ceased operation in 1981, but in 1984 the rights to the name “…
- Special CollectionsWilliam B. Ewert (1943-2001) earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at the University of New Hampshire. In 1970 he became science consultant to the New Hampshire Department of Education, and eventually served as assistant to the commissioner…
- Special CollectionsAuthor, printer, and illustrator Letter with envelope written June 4, 1945 by W.A. Dwiggins to Thelma Brackett, U.N.H. Librarian. In the letter Dwiggins thanks Brackett for mentioning his book, Millenium I, in one of her radio…
- Special CollectionsPrinter and publisher located in New York City A letter of thanks to Thelma Brackett, U.N.H. Librarian, from Frederic G. Melcher. Also includes a signed Christmas card and two pamphlets: Faith in Our Times (1955) and On Becoming Acquainted with Books (1962).
- Special CollectionsJames T. Fields (1817-1881), author, poet, and publisher, was born in Portsmouth, NH in 1817. At the age of fourteen, he became a clerk in a bookstore in Boston, MA and later a partner in the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He edited the Atlantic Monthly, which was published by his firm,…
- Special CollectionsDaniel Berkeley Updike, printer and publisher, worked for the Merrymount Press of Boston, Mass. He was a recognized authority on the history and use of print types, and he played an important role in the development and improvement of typography in…
- Special CollectionsR.T. (Terry) Risk, author and printer, began operating the Typographeum Press in Francestown, New Hampshire in 1974. He uses a 10 x 15 Chandler and Price treadle platen press. Hand-set and printed letterpress books of literary interest, including…
