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Updates – 2016

July 13, 2016

  1. Updated information about books and other materials contained in The Bishop Collection.

July 6, 2016

  1. Entry added to Mosher Press Exhibitions: Two exhibitions in the first half of 2016 presented books from the Mosher Press, one as part of the Penn Libraries exhibition of color in private and fine press books in their “Across the Spectrum” exhibit from February to May, and the other being the “New Members Collect” Exhibition at the Grolier Club, June through July. Both are covered here.
  2. Entry added to Publications by Philip R. Bishop: Bishop, Philip R. Two essays: “A Couple Exhibitions Continue to keep Mosher in the Public Eye” and “Mosher’s ‘Old World’ Kasidah on Edith J. Morley’s Bookshelves,” July 5, 2016.

June 20, 2016

  1. Entry added to Publications by Philip R. Bishop: (Bishop, Philip R., about website) Barry, Rebecca Rego. “A Revamped Website for Mosher Press Collectors,” FineBooks & Collections blog (for FineBooks & Collections magazine), June 20, 2016.

May 28, 2016

  1. Added to the Fine Bindings section: A selection of bindings by Zahn & Schwartz in The Bishop Collection.
  2. Entry added to Publications by Philip R. Bishop: (Bishop, Philip R., subject) Barry, Rebecca Rego. “Leather-Bound Beauty in a Cowboy Outpost” in Rare Books Uncovered—True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places. Foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Minneapolis, MN: Voyageur Press, [December] 2015, pp. 44-48. This exciting books-on-books volume is filled with 52 tales of remarkable discoveries from the world of book collecting including those by book dealers, collectors, institutional professionals, and family members who had no idea what lurked in their attic. Bishop’s story, as recounted by Rebecca Barry, is but one of those entertaining and inspiring chapters.
  3. New website launched with an updated design, content reorganization, and many new images added throughout.

May 15, 2016

  1. Three essays added to Publications by Philip R. Bishop: From Florence Foote, to the Misses Kendall, to Peter Verberg: Some Bindings of Note; Other Additions to the Mosher Collection, The Delaware Bibliophiles’ Endpapers, March 2016, pp. 16–22, and 34-35; and not included in Endpapers, but published here as well: “Miss Wilcox’s Book Emporium.“
  2. Updates to links in Major Research Collections, Significant Collections, and Sites of Related Interest.
  3. Major website redesign in process.

 

Updates – 2015

September 8, 2015

Included are four new essays for the fall issue of Endpapers, including an essay on a Mosher inscription to famed book collector William F. Gable; a training binding by the Long Island suffragist Rosalie Gardner Jones; the acquisition of numerous very limited Japan vellum Mosher books; a 1917 binding signed M-E-T on Francis Thompson’s Shelley: An Essay (Mosher, 1912); a newly acquired Japan vellum copy of Fragilia Labilia in binding once owned by the American minister to China—J. V. A. MacMurray; a copy of Mosher’s 1926 catalogue inscribed by John L. Foley to Dean Archibald Lewis Boulton of Columbia University; a strange copy of The Lotus with Mosher’s ad; acquisition of the Henry William Poor copy of Swinburne’s Poems & Ballads (Mosher, 1904) with a letter from Mosher to H. W. Poor; and signed and inscribed copies of Robert Bruce Stewart’s Fair Play’s a Jewel (2015) which uses Mosher as a pivotal character. The essays also commemorate the 25th anniversary of the plaque honoring Mosher at 45 Exchange St. in Portland, Maine, and give a tribute to Gordon Peiffer as past editor of Endpapers. An account of the acquisition of a Mosher book from Charles Frederick Eaton’s ‘The Arts & Crafts’ Shop in Santa Barbara, California (calligraphy by Robert Wilson Hyde) is included. Finally thirteen more books with Mosher’s bookplate are recorded as being added to the Bishop Collection.

April 12, 2015

American Bungalow magazine article

February 7, 2015

Including five essays for the spring issue of Endpapers: a brief essay on signed and inscribed copies of Mosher’s edition of Yeats’s The Land of Heart’s Desire; an essay on some spinoffs of the Mosher Collection including the Mosher Press website; additional research on an Ellen Gates Starr binding; an essay on a newly acquire Hans Asper binding on an ‘Old World Edition’ of Mosher’s Rubaiyat; and lastly, a listing of all the new additions to the Mosher Collection since the fall issue of Endpapers.

 

Updates – 2014

August 11, 2014

Including a lengthy essay for the fall issue of the Delaware Bibliophiles’ Endpapers, a new entry in the book printed on vellum in the Bishop Collecton, and some general housekeeping.

June 16, 2014

Including a guest appearance on the ‘Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon’ blog site and some added new books acquired from Mosher’s personal library, including the Eragny Press Historie de Peau d’Ane (London, 1902.) by Perrault from which the cover design was used for two of Mosher’s own publications.

February 6, 2014

Including the Bishop article “My dear Miss Brachvogel…” in Yeats Annual and several books newly added to the Books from Mosher’s Library portion of the Bishop Collection of Thomas Bird Mosher and the Mosher Press.

Updates – 2013

August 27, 2013

Five essays on books added to the collection including two special bindings (one on a pure vellum copy), some Le Gallienne inscribed copies with a letter, a Grigsby catalogue of her sale in a special binding, an early business card of Mosher’s, and some reflections on some earlier Mosher book collector correspondence.

May 14, 2013

Five books from Mosher’s Library were added to the Mosher Press Collection of P. R. Bishop.

February 15, 2013

Three essays by Bishop from the March 2013 issue of Endpapers: “An Association Copy of Note:  Willa Cather’s Copy of Aucassin & Nicholete“, “One Returned to the Fold, Four Newly Added, and Then Some”, and “American Little Magazines of the 1890s: A Revolution in Print”.

Updates – 2011-2009

August 17, 2011

Minor website updates.

October 21, 2010

Publications in chronological order.

February 24, 2010

Six essays to the Delaware Bibliophiles’ Endpapers for their September 2009 and March 2010 issues, a number of books from Mosher’s library, and additional correspondence to / from / about Mosher.

June 15, 2009

Essay from the Delaware Bibliophiles’ March 2009 newsletter and a number of books from Mosher’s library including the Vale Press Life of Benvenuto Cellini (1900) which Mosher pointedly criticized, Machen’s The Great God Pan (1895) from which Mosher published an extract, and a book from his father, Capt. Benjamin Mosher. Also mounted were several pieces of correspondence to / from / or about Mosher, and links to Bishop’s articles on the Gordon-Van Tine bungalow.

February 19, 2009

Added three essays: one from the Delaware Bibliophiles newsletter and two related to the Gordon-Van Tine home of the Bishops. Also added the Independent Online Booksellers Association newsletter, The IOBA Standard. The Fall 2008 edition (posted in December 2008) was completely dedicated to the Bishop Collection of Mosher Books including both a picturesque essay on bindings and an extensive interview with Phil Bishop by Shawn Purcell. A book was added to the books from Mosher’s library, and other general maintenance performed including slight changes to some pages.

 

Updates 2008-2006

September 25, 2008

Added four new essays published in the September 2008 issue of Endpapers. Also added new books from Mosher’s library.

March 1 & May 21, 2008

Added Sunday News article on Bishop and story behind a Mosher book appearing in a foreign film, and added the new essay “The Lost Galleon Found” from the March issue of the Delaware Bibliophiles’ Endpapers (see credits page). Added several new bindings to the page on Fine Bindings. Added several letters to the Mosher manuscripts in The Bishop Collection; also added several books from Mosher’s library. Added the Delaware Art Museum to the Exhibitions page, and added other exhibition updates relating to the Eragny Press exhibition. Under Exhibitions added two talks on Mosher, one to the Manchester Bibliographical Society in Manchester on March 17 and one to The Baxter Society in Portland, Maine on May 14, 2008. Added more books from Mosher’s library to the Bishop Collection.

August 1, 2007

Updated books from Mosher’s library and Mosher books printed on vellum. Updated the biographical statement on Bishop. Also included the Grolier Club’s exhibition “Illustrating the Good Life–The Pissarros’ Eragny Press, 1894-1914” in which several Mosher Press items were prominently displayed.

March 20, 2007

Updated links throughout; added several “boxed set” additions and books from Mosher’s library; added new exhibition “Illustrating the Good Life – The Pissarros’ Eragny Press, 1894-1914” and link to the Mosher entries in that exhibition; provided link to latest essay “When a List begins to Dwindle–Memento Mori.”

November 13, 2006

Under the Bishop collection: added numerous books to Mosher’s Library, added correspondence from Mosher including an archive of material to bookseller/publisher Charles S. Pratt, added an original source text for the Vest Pocket Aucassin and Nicolete, added another book printed on vellum from the Williard library, and added an archive of material relating to the 1906 publishing of Circum Praecordia, added material surrounding the publishing of Corra Fabbri’s poetry. Also two extra-illuminated books were added, and several bindings including one executed by Charlotte Strouse, wife of the noted Mosher collector Norman Strouse.

 

Updates 2005-2004

November 21, 2005

Added letters from Ellen Terry under manuscripts (with corresponding JPEG photos) in the Bishop Collection as well as a number of new books added from Mosher’s library; improved the cross-link functionality of several pages. Added four new essays written by Bishop appearing in the Delaware Bibliophiles’ newsletter, ENDPAPERS, including “The French Connection:–Thoughts from a Pandit in Switzerland,” and “Lights, Action, Camera” which chronicles a Mosher book appearing in an upcoming film entitles “The Secret Life of Words” starring Tim Robbins and Julie Christy, et.al. Added 2004 Club Bindery exhibition with links to the Mosher Press Exhibitions page. Changed Bishop’s e-mail link to his new address at [email protected].

March 10, 2005

Four additional essays have been added to Bishop’s published writings (see Opening Credits page). In addition to a number of small changes, transcriptions to the “Piracy Controversy” links were corrected. Several more books were added to the Books from Mosher’s Library in the Bishop Collection. A new acquisition was added to the books printed on real vellum (Primavera). Several new bindings on Mosher books (with links to pictures) have also been added to the Mosher Books in Fine Bindings in the Bishop Collection including a Rubáiyát and an exhibition binding by René Chambolle on a copy of Aucassin & Nicolete.

December 7, 2004

A Google search feature is now part of the Table of Contents page. This feature self-indexes periodically so recent additions, like those listed immediately below for 7 Dec. 2004, will eventually be made part of the index Google searches. Added The Collected Works of William Morris, Lang’s Grass of Parnassus, two issues of The Quest, and the 1870 issue of Rossetti’s Poems (which is also the source text for Mosher’s publication of 1902) to the books from Mosher’s library in the Bishop Collection. Added two illuminated Mosher books, Félise and The Roadmender, and three Launder bindings and their pictures linked to the bindings page (also a sample Club binding on Swinburne is now linked to a picture), and lastly a Dec. 1921 letter from Mosher was added with link to the actual letter.

August 27, 2004

Added four essays from the Delaware Bibliophiles Endpapers under Credits / Philip R. Bishop: “Unexpected Kindnesses” dealing with the many instances where people have contributed gifts to the Mosher Press collection of R. R. Bishop; an intriguing article based on “The Mosher Bookplate” and what it does and does not represent; an essay entitled “A Little Celebration” which discusses Bishop’s completion of the most difficult series in the Mosher canon; and an essay on “More Kindnesses Remembered” which brings the gifts to the Mosher collection up-to-date. A new book was also added to the books from Mosher’s library, and general maintenance to make the website accessible to Internet search engines.

July 23, 2004

Added eight books to “Books from Mosher’s Library” (several inscribed or with letters) and added two Mosher books to “Books Printed on Roman Vellum” all in the Bishop collection. Also added letter from Charles C. Bubb of the Clerk’s Press and an important letter from Mosher to George Charles Williamson to the “Manuscript Material” and a rare boxed set of Stevenson’s books from the Vest Pocket Series, now all in the Bishop collection.

April 26, 2004

Added several books to the “Books from Mosher’s Library” in the Bishop collection, added two new essays to Bishop’s writings obtained by first clicking on Opening Credits, added more textual links to additional essays in the same section, added numerous JPEGs to a book added under “Samples of other Illuminated Mosher Books” in the Fine Bindings section, added Mosher letter to the holdings in the Bishop collection, and various & sundry smaller changes.

January 13, 2004

Added three new essays/articles and their links written by Bishop in the newly appearing issue of Endpapers; added an article on cover designs and its corresponding link; provided a link to the text of an address commemorating the unveiling of a plaque in Portland; added correspondence, and books from Mosher’s library, to the Bishop collection; general maintenance and other minor changes.

 

Updates 2003-2001

Nov 17, 2003

Added several titles to the holdings of the Bishop Collection, updated the Exhibitions page with a Rowfant Club exhibition and link, mounted an unpublished essay on “Mosher and Dr. Butterworth,” and some general maintenance.

September 18, 2003

Added to exhibitions page, added several titles to Mosher’s library, and other general maintenance.

August 18, 2003

Added Google search engine at opening page, added article and links to additional entries for Bishop’s articles.

June 18, 2003

Added letter & link to manuscript holdings, new link to Dartmouth’s “manuscript box of holograph and typed material”, update of Bishop’s writings, two books added to Books in Mosher’s Library, and general maintenance.

May 7, 2003

Posted full transcription of Lionel Johnson letter, concluded links to Bishop’s articles written on collecting, added entry and link for Bishop’s 3/20/03 interview with The Book Guys of National Public Radio, more several more books listed on Books from Mosher’s Library, and general maintenance.

March 13, 2003

Expanded Bishop’s writings including links to some of his articles; added Flora Lamb’s list of royalties paid; added to collection of books from Mosher’s library; numerous additions to the new manuscript holdings in the Bishop collection; reciprocally linked to the British Library Image Database of Bookbindings; added new entry to the Exhibitions page, and updated the Sites of Related Interest; cross-linked books printed on vellum throughout the site; links to full text of Fredeman and Turner obituaries; and general maintenance.

August 13, 2002

Mosher’s Writings section added, a few additions to the Bishop Collection

April 16, 2002

Book Samples, Fine Bindings

March 13, 2002

Miscellaneous items

January 3, 2002

Fine Bindings

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