Archive of Greeting Cards, Correspondence
[1970s-1990s].
A trove of beautiful materials from the files of California bookbinder, Mel Kavin of Kater-Crafts, consisting of correspondence and other items sent to him by several renowned book artists.
Includes 18 unique cards:
- two by the preeminent British restoration bookbinder, Bernard Chester Middleton
- one by Trevor Jones, British designer bookbinder
- two by Ethan Lipton, a leader in technology education and graphic communications, and student of Richard J. Hoffman
- two printed by Hoffman for Dr. Robert John Moes, a collector and member of the Zamorano Club
- one printed in Laguna Beach by Tom Jeavons featuring wood engravings by Paul Landacre and the text from ‘Song of Peace’ by George Harkness from Finlandia Opus 26 by Jean Sibelius
- one by internationally renowned English designer bookbinder and book artist Philip Smith featuring art of St. Margaret’s Church in Yatton, Keynell by artist Dorothy M. Weighill, Smith’s wife
- one from Whittier College President Emeritus Eugene S. Mills featuring the title page of a first edition of John Greenleaf Whittier’s Snow-Bound that the university had recently acquired
- five from Samuel B. Ellenport and wife Avril, owners of Harcourt Bindery, Inc and the Harcourt School of Bookbinding in Boston
- one from Margaret and John F. Class, owners of the largest private collection of leaf books and a very large collection of miniature and movable books and members of the Miniature Book Society, the Book Club of California, the Movable Book Society, and Los Compadres
- one featuring a photograph labeled "Mel's idea" and another with black and gold leaf paper pasted to the front cover
. Item #9104
Price: $200.00