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ACCN 2171
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds papers
1683-2016
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel
51.5 linear feet
The Richard-Gabriel Rummonds papers (1683-2016) contain the author's research, drafts, notes, and references for his two-volume set, Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress(2004), and his memoir, Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer (2014). Also included are business materials related to Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia, personal materials, and collected memorabilia.
Collection material in
English.
The Richard-Gabriel Rummonds papers (1683-2016) contain the author's research, drafts, notes, and references for his two-volume set,
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, which was published in 2004, and his memoir, Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer, published in 2014. Also included are business materials related to Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia, personal materials, and collected memorabilia.
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Donated by Bradley Hutchinson, University of Utah in 2006 and 2008.
Purchased from Richard-Gabriel Rummonds in 2016.
Processed by Elizabeth Rogers in 2006.
Addendum processed by Aaron Curtis in 2009.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2018.
8 reels of film were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
See also the Richard-Gabriel Rummonds papers located at the New York Public Library (MssCol 2645).
Printing--History
Hand presses--History
Media and Communication
Drafts (documents)
Notes
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress
Stinehour Edition Documents
1
1
"The Printing Office"
Chapters 32/1
1
2
"Personnel"
Chapters 33/2
1
3
"The Iron Handpress"
Chapters 34/3
1
4
"Setting up the Iron Handpress"
Chapters 35/4
1
5
"Ironpress Maintenence," "Covering the Typans," "Imposing"
Chapters 36/5, 37/6, and 38/8.
1
6
Front Matter, Contents
2000-2002
1
7
Front Matter, List of Plates
1
8
Front Matter, Foreward, Draft
1
9
Front Matter, Preface Draft
1
10
"The Printing Office," Text Draft
1
11
Acknowledgments
2
1
Front Matter, "Introduction"
2
2
"Personnel"
2
3
"The Ironpress"
2
4
"Setting Up the Iron Handpress"
2
5
"Ironpress Maintenance"
2
6
"Covering the Typans"
2
7
"Composition"
2
8
"Imposing"
2
9
"Making Margins"
3
1
"Locking up Forms"
3
2
"Proofs"
3
3
"Reading and Correcting"
3
4
"Correcting in the Metal"
3
5
"Making Reading the Forum"
3
6
"Making the Register"
3
7
Author's Notes, Chapters 21-28
4
1
"Appendix I," "Appendix II, "Appendix III," Back Matter
4
2
Bibliography
4
3-4
Bibliography, Text
4
5-6
Bibliography
The bibliography in folder 6 was not used in the final draft.
5
1
Back Matter, Selected References
Contains some references which were not used.
5
2
Back Matter, Index of Names
5
3
"Glossary," Letters A-H
5
4
"Glossary," Letters I-P
5
5
"Glossary," Letters Q-Z
5
6
"Glossary," Letters A-Z
5
7
Illustration References and Research
6
1
Illustrations, Plates 1-32
6
2
Plates Reference and Jacket
6
3
"Paper and Dampening Paper"
6
4
"Black Ink"
6
5
"Colored Inks"
6
6
"Balls, Rollers, and Inking"
7
1
"Inking"
7
2
"Presswork"
7
3
"Printing Multiple Colors"
7
4
"Printing in Gold"
7
5
"Printing Wood Engravings"
7
6
"Stereotype and Electrotype"
8
1
"Warehouse"
8
2
"Fine Printing"
8
3
"The Business of Printing"
8
4
"Printing Machines"
8
5-6
Author's Notes, Chapters 1-20
9
1
Final Proofs and Front Matter
Volumes 1-2.
9
2
Chapter 1 "The Printing Office"
9
3
Chapter 3 "Personnel"
9
4
Chapter 3 "The Iron Handpress"
9
5
Chapter 4 "Setting up the Iron Handpress," Chapter 5 "Iron Handpress Maintenance," and Chapter 6 "Covering the Typans"
9
6
Chapter 7, "Composition"
9
7
Chapter 8 "Imposing," and Chapter 9 "Making Margins"
9
8
Chapter 10, "Locking up Forms," Chapter 11 "Proofs," Chapter 12 "Reading and Corrections," and Chapter 13 "Correcting in the Metal"
9
9
Chapter 14, "Making Reading the Form," and Chapter 15, "Making Register"
9
10
Chapter 16, "Paper and Dampening Paper," and Chapter 17, "Black Ink"
10
1
Chapter 18 "Colored Inks," and Chapter 19, "Balls, Rollers, and Inking"
10
2
Chapter 20, "Inking," and Chapter 21 "Presswork"
10
3
Chapter 22, "Printing in Multiple Colors," and Chapter 23, "Printing in Gold"
10
4
Chapter 23, "Printing Wood Engravings"
10
5
Chapter 23 "Stereotype and Electrotype," and Chapter 26, "Warehouse"
10
6
Chapter 27, "Fine Printing," and Chapter 28," The Business of Printing"
10
7
Appendices I, II, III, and Back Matter
10
8
Bibliography, Manuals, and Back Matter
10
9
Bibliography References, and Index of Names
10
10
Glossary, Index, and Back Matter
Alphabetized Readings Reference Sources
11
1
Adams, Beniowski, Bidwell, Bishop, Crisp and Cumins
1837-1893
11
2
De Vinne, Gaskill, Gazlay, Gould, Grafton, and Guide to Trade
11
3
Hansard
1825
11
4
Hansard Jr., Harpel, History of Printing, Holtzapffel, Houghton, and Jacobi
1841-1888
11
5
Jacobi, and Johnson
1824-1890
11
6
Johnson/Adams, Kelly, Krombholtz, and MacKellar
1824-1893
12
1
Mason, Moxon, and Oldfield
1693-1890
12
2
Partington, Pasko, Ringwalt, Savage, and Sherman
1822-1894
12
3
Southward
1882-1900
12
4
Stower, Timperley, and Van Winkle
1808-1838
12
5
Weatherley, Whybrew, Wilkinson, Williams, and Wilson
1882-1895
Bibliography References
13
1
Abbott and Adams
1837-1864
13
2
"Art of Printing," H.E.B., Bangs, Baxter, Beadnell, Benoski, and Beri
1809-1880
13
3
Bidwell, Bishop, Boeck, and Brandt
13
4
Holmes, Moxon, Johnson, and Lemoine
1683-1896
13
5
Luckombe, Palmer, "Printer's Grammar," Smith and Watson
1713-1797
14
1
Brightly, Covey, Cowell, and Cowie
1809-1888
14
2
Collingridge and Cowie
1836-1897
14
3
Crisp, Cummins, Degotardi, and De Vinne
1861-1904
14
4
Dickenson, Earhart, Ellis, Ellis and Denton, Fielding, Fisher, and Ford
1835-1897
14
5
Francis, Gannon, Gaskill, and Gazlay
1836-1885
14
6
Gould
1878-1893
15
1
Government of India, Graham, Gratlan, Guide to Trade, Hall, Hansard and Hansard Jr.
1825-1898
15
2
Harland, Harpel, Hart, Hazen, Herbert, and "Histroy of Printing"
1836-1893
15
3
"How to Print," Howitt, and "Inland Printer"
1849-1897
15
4
Jacobi, Johnson, and Johnson/Adams
1824-1898
15
5
Joyner, Judd and Glass, Kelly, Kilvan, Krumbholz, Lawton, "London Scale of Prices," Lynch, and Machris
1835-1895
15
6
MacKellar
1866-1893
16
1
Magrath, Manning, "Manual of Punctuation," Mason, Morgan, Morrill, Munday, Munsell, and Meyers
1805-1875
16
2
"New England," Nicholson, Noble, O'Brien, Oldfield, Partington, Pasko, Powell, and "Printer"
1865-1895
16
3
"Printer's Estimate," "Printer's Manual," "Printing and Allied Trades Association," Ramaley, Raynor, Read, Rhynd, Ringwalt, Rose, Rowell, Ruse, Ruse and Straker
1816-1897
16
4
Sampson, Saunders, Savage, Sawyer, Sheldon, Sherman, and Sims
1822-1900
16
5
Southward
1871-1900
17
1
Southward
1900
17
2
Southward, Stevens, Stewart, and Stower
1805-1900
17
3
Summers, Timperley, Tobitt, "Treatise on Punctuation," Trumball, "Typographical Handbook," Van Winkle, Warren, Watson, and Watt
1818-1890
17
4
Weatherley, Whybrew, Wightmen, Wilkinson, Williams, Wilson, and Wyman
1844-1895
17
5
Davis and Carter, Gaskill, Hastings, Marthens, Wakeman, and Wrath
1850
Bibliography References: Libraries and Authority Files
18
1
American, Antiquarian, Bancroft, Birmingham, Boston, Athenaeum, and Boston Public
18
2
Brown, U.C. Berkley, U.C.L.A., Caliufornia Historical, California State, Case Western, Chicago, Cincinnati, Clark, Columbia, Corning, and Dartmouth
18
3
Delaware, Detroit, Glasgow, Grolier, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Iow, and Kentucky
18
4
Library of Congress, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Multnomah, Newberry, New York Public, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oxford, Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, Princeton, Providence, Athenaeum, and Providence Public
19
1
Rochester, St. Bride, San Francisco Public, Seattle, Smithsonian, Southern Methodist, Sydney, and Tennessee
19
2
Toronto/Massey, tokyo, Utah, and Vermont
19
3
Virginia, Wadewitz, Washington, and William and Mary
19
4
Witchita and Yale
19
5-6
Authority Files, A-O
20
1
Authority Files, P-Z
Index of Names, A-Z, and Author's Notes
20
2-4
Index of Names, A-Z
20
5
Style Notes, Vocabulary, Proofreading Notes, and Photocopies of Style Cards
20
6
Style Cards and Reference File
Manuscript Drafts
21
Chapters 1-28
This box contains the version with notes by Steven Saxe. It also contains his edited version.
22
Front Matter, Text and Back Matter
This box contains the version edited by Giordano.
23
Illustrations and Chapters 1-15, Draft 1
24
Manuscript, Draft 1, Chapters 16-28, Illustrations
25
Manuscript, Draft 2
Final Drafts and Historical Appendices
26
1
Final Draft with Saxe's Comments
26
2
Final Draft, with Thomas's Comments
26
3
Historical Appendices
None of these appendices were used in the final version of the book.
Correspondence, Publisher's Notes, Bibliography References, and Chapter Drafts
27
1
Correspondence
2002-2004
27
2
Design Notes
2002
27
3
Style Notes
2002
27
4
Gabriel's Word Usage
2002
27
5
Bibliography Reference, Williams, T.B.
1895
27
6-10
Chapter Drafts
2002
These folders include drafts of the Front Matter and Chapters 1-19.
28
1-4
Chapter Drafts
2002
These folders include drafts of Chapters 20-28 and the Back Matter.
28
5-8
Photocopies of Figures
2002
These folders include photocopies of Figures 1.1-27.1.
28
9
Draft Selections
Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Book Images
29
1
Correspondence
2003
This folder contains a letter describing the contents of folders 2-7 (Rummonds' Folders A-B and D-G).
29
2
Back Matter Manuscript (Folder A)
2003
29
3
Missing Images and Plates (Folder B)
2003
29
4
Photocopies of the Plates (Folder D)
2003
29
5
Photocopies of Book Artwork (Folder E)
2003
29
6
Glossary/Index Manuscript (Folder F)
2003
29
7
Bibliography Manuscript (Folder G)
2003
30
Editor's Drafts
2003
This box includes Editor's Drafts with edits by the author.
31
Editor's Drafts
2003-2004
This box includes Editor's Drafts with edits by the author.
Addendum
This series includes the materials that were purchased from Richard-Gabriel Rummonds.
Personal materials
32
1-2
Diaries
1949-1950
These two diaries were written during Rummonds time at Syracuse University.
33-34
Correspodence from Rummonds to his parents
1943-2002
35
Correspondence A-J
2001
36
Correspondence K-R
2011
37
1-6
Correspondence S-Z
2011
37
7
Third party and form letters
2011
37
8-11
General correspondence
1996-2010
37
12
Christmas cards designed by Rummonds
37
13
List of correspondence located at the New York Public Library
38
1
Rummonds interview by Michael Meza
2012
38
2
Rummonds interview by Sheila Bender
2016
38
3
Personal documents
1931-2009
38
4
Family and personal wills
1965-2003
38
5
Expired passports and driver licenses
38
6
Estate of Geraldine Rummonds
1998-2009
38
7
80th birthday party at Bruce Bond's
2011
38
8
Personal documents - Italy
1970-1983
38
9
Travel ephemera
2009
38
10
Dinner menus, Ballard
2007-2009
39
1-2
Kit Carson Junior High School, Highlights and Supplement
1946
39
3
Sacramento High School, The Forty-niner
39
4-6
Sacramento High School classes of 1949, 50th year reunion
1999
39
7
Sacramento High School yearbook, Review
1947-1949
40
1
Memorabilia, "The Little House," Long Beach, California
1932-2001
40
2
Residence at 810 Water Street, #3, Port Townsend, Washington
2011
40
3
Architectural design ideas
Memoir: Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer,
41-42
Draft
prior to 2005
43-50
Draft
2005
51
Fishbein, edits of memoir
52
Sal Glynn, edits of memoir
53
Jameson, notes and proofs with edits of memoir
54
Jim Jones, edits of memoir
55
Taylor, drafts of memoir
56
Taylor, photograph layouts of memoir
57
General edits of memoir
58
Typescript ready for setting
59-60
Proofs, 14.B
61
Proofs, 15
62
Production, double-page spread
63
Rummond's edits and notes used in text
64
1
Authority files, businesses
64
2
Authority files, English words
64
3
Authority files, extracts
65
1-2
Authority files, extracts
65
3
Authority files, foreign words
65
4
Authority files, general facts
65
5-6
Authority files, general materials
66
Authority files, general facts
67
1-2
Authority files, organizations
67
3-4
Authority files, personal names
68
Authority files, personal names
69
1-4
Authority files, personal names
69
5-6
Authority files, place names
70
1-3
Authority files, place names
70
4
Authority files, printers and publishers
71
1-2
Authority files, printing
71
3-6
Authority files, titles of works
72-73
Printed copies of scanned Rummond's correspondence held at the New York Public Library
1968-1976
74
1
Acknowledgements, drafts
74
2
Additional materials for extracts
74
3
Book design
2014
74
4
Checklist of books
74
5
Correspondence regarding images
2011-2013
74
6
Correspondence with Sal Glynn
2013
74
7
Credits and permissions
74
8-9
Distribution, payments
2014-2015
74
10-11
Distribution, complimentary copies
2013-2015
75
1
Editing, style sheet
75
2
Editors and readers
2013
75
3
Edits by Jim Jones
75
4
Edits by Jill Mason
1990-1991
75
5
Front matter, drafts
75
6
Gallery proofs from Bixler
75
7
Index and authority file list
75
8-10
Index drafts
75
11
Index, personal names
75
12
Index, work folder
75
12
List of names for credits and permissions
2011-2014
76
1
Notes, answers to queries
2012-2013
76
2
Notes by Mary Manous
76
3
Notes not used in text
76
4
Production, financial
2013
76
5-6
Production, jacket design and cover mockup
76
7
Production, University of Oregon work order
2012
76
8
Production, scanned images
76
9
Production, title-page design
76
10
Production, wet proofs
76
11
Promotion, reviews and comments
2015
76
12
Proofs of double-page spreads
76
13
Proofs of index with edits
76
14
Rummond's edits of proofs sent to Brad
2014
76
15
Queries for edits
2013-2014
76
16
Recipe index
76
17
Reference chronologies
77
1-3
Reference materials
77
4-5
Rummond's files, notes and corrections
77
6-11
Style reference materials
77
12
Texts not used
General writings
78
1
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, editing
2004
78
2
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, reviews
2005
78
3
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, comments from book arts servers
2000
78
4
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, website for handpress
2007
2011
78
5
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, publishing agreement between Oak Knoll Press and Rummonds
1997-1998
78
6
A Sampler of Leaves, drafts
1996
78
7
A Sampler of Leaves, setting copy
1996
78
8
"Sandy Tilcock and the Lone Goose Press"
1998
78
9
Various writings
1950
1953
1987
- "The Little Boy in the Bell Glass," Occident
- "Mrs. Bebe Bear and the Announcing Angel's Egg," Occident
- Translation by Rummonds of Luigi Santucci's short story, "The Woman with Her Mouth Open"
78
10
Book review by Rummonds of Personal Impressions
2006
Lectures, seminars and workshops
79
1-4
Lecture: "Abandoned by a Married Man"
2005
79
5-9
Lecture: "Cora C. Fletcher"
2010
80
Lecture: "Creating Great Literature"
2015
81
Lecture: "A Difference of Imagination"
1987
2007
82
Lecture: "A Memoir is the Sweetest Form" and "The Iron Handpress"
1997
2015
83
1-6
Seminar: "Structuring Poetry"
2015
83
7-11
Workshop: "Printing on the Handpress"
1998
2006-2007
Business materials for Plain Wrapper Press (PWP) and Ex Ophidia
84
1
PWP monetary values prior to 2007
1985
2005-2006
84
2-3
Promotional, collection scans
2008-2009
84
4
Promotional articles and reviews
1979-1984
84
5
SMU Bible catalog design
84
6
Plans for proposed expansion of Cottondale, Alabama studio
84
7
Manuscripts, miscellaneous
84
8
Bookseller invoices
1970s
84
9
Canceled checks
1968-1979
84
10
Checks, Alabama
1980s
84
11
Postcard with Rummonds standing next to the Washington press
84
12
Postcard with a quote from Camus
84
13
Notification card of Seattle change of address
1996
84
14
Address labels
84
15
Ex Ophidia notepaper
84
16
Ex Ophidia's labels for clamshell boxes
84
17
Page tip-in for Jorge Borges book
2000
84
18
Anne Gorde's (photographer) presentation kit
2007
85
1-11
Photocopies of logbooks
1969-1988
85
12
Exhibition: "Un Tipografo Fra Due Culture" Biblioteca di via Sento, Milan
1999
85
13
Exhibition: "Collective," Biblioteca Civica di Verona, Stampatori, Torchi, Libri
1999
85
14
Exhibition: "Two Private Presses from Verona"
2001
85
15
Printing consultation for the University of Utah
2003
85
16
Teaching at the Cornish College of the Arts
1997
85
17
Proposal for printer-in-residence, University of Otago
2005-2007
86
Authority files, personal names
87
1
NYPL and accesion of PWP archives
1984
87
2
University of Oregon checklist of Rummonds private press books and ephemera
1999
87
3
University of Utah checklist of Rummonds technical and reference library
2004
87
4
University of Utah outline of Rummonds' personal archive
87
5
Newton and Geraldine Rummonds' PWP collection
2007-2008
87
6
Lehman PWP collection
2006
87
7
Oak Knoll Press catalogs featuring books written by Rummonds
2005
2008
88
1
Print and drawing collection, work folder
88
2
Private press bibliography, work folder
88
3
Catalog of books designed by Rummonds, work folder
88
4
Three Rare Items, DVDs compiled by Rummonds
2007
88
5
Edits by Rummonds for Lauren Fishbein's Pucci memoir manuscript
2012-2013
88
6
Anne Garde, Extralight catalog
2008
88
7
Distribution materials for On Being a California Poet
2004-2005
88
8
Proof of Brad Hutchinson's McLain project
2012
88
9
Alessandro Zanella
2012-2013
88
10
Carol Joyce's archive
2016
88
11
University of West England, Bristol, work folder
2003
2005
88
12
Research specialist for film and video production
1995
89
1
Archivist, work folder
2015-2016
89
2
Wikipedia, work folder
2015
90-91
Ex Ophidia's printing of Fake Cities by John D. Wagner
2015-2016
92
Index cards of collectors
Memorabilia
93
Mementos from Sacramento, California
1947-1949
This box contains high school memorabilia. Items included are socks, patches, programs, diploma, pins, identification cards, and other items.
94
Mementos from Syracuse, New York
1949-1950
This box contains college memorabilia. Items included is a freshman cap, sketchbook, button, and a men's student activity book.
95
Mementos from Berkeley, California and Alabama
Items included in this box are license plates, membership card for Possum Growers & Breeders, John Coleman's Swiss knife, US Navy dress cap, rock amulet, leather pouch, and a tooled leather amulet made by John Newbauer.
96
Mementos from New York
Items included in this box is a guest book for Rummonds 60th birthday, rosary, Noah bell, antique cross from Quito, sterling silver bookmark, hand-painted brooch, porcelain disk, and other items.
97
Mementos from Verona, Italy
Items included in this box are three gold-plated panels by Arnaldo Pomodoro, composing stick, handmade nails from the razed Palazzo Guaranti, emblem from an Alpino solder's hat, an Italian flag hand sewn by Lauren Fishbein, cystal paperweight, notepad folder marbled by Giorgio Vigna, and other items.0
General materials
98
Award to PWP for "Siete Poemas Sajones"
1976
1
Microfilm copy of the Rummonds papers located at the NYPL, MNN:ZZ-37962