D. B. U. AND R. R. Selected extracts from correspondence that passed between Daniel Berkeley Updike & Rudolph Ruzicka from 1908 to 1941

Book Description

NY: American Printing History Association (1997). . 8vo. vi, 181 pages including index and two tipped-in facsimiles. Illustrations are reproduced in the original colors. With three original examples of Ruzicka's multi-color wood engravings printed at the Merrymount Press. Handbound by Judi Conant in quarter cloth & marbled boards, with paper spine label. Fine. One of 50 deluxe copies (of 500) numbered & signed by the publisher, Roderick Stinehour. The three tipped-in original wood engravings (two are New Year's Greetings) are: Chester Greenough's Library, A View of the Summer House, and A View of the Market House. D.B.U and R.R. prints for the first time extracts from the important correspondence between these major figures of American graphic arts, revealing a little-known closeness between the Merrymount Press fine printer Updike and the artist Ruzicka. The two men collaborated on a number of important books, including Newark and the Grolier Club's Irving, and the exquisite series of Merrymount annual keepsakes. Ruzicka played a substantial advisory role in the writing of Updike's monumental Printing Types. This candid thirty-three year correspondence is put in context by the Lathems' elucidating commentary.

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