[Press of the Woolly Whale] First Days of the Village Press Other The original presentation bookplate has

The original presentation bookplate has been preserved on the front pastedown: a gift from John Pierpont Morgan to Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield

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while Updike's tastes are nowhere more marked than in the brilliant imitation of Pickering's later liturgical style in his and Harold Brown's On the Dedications of American Churches

silver and bronze of the initial letters

[Press of the Woolly Whale] First Days of the Village Press Other The original presentation bookplate hasRansom, Will. The First Days of the Village Press: Extracts from the Diary of Will Ransom, MCMIII. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, privately printed, [1937]. [One hundred copies printed]. First edition. [12]pp. Title page vignette. Original black card wrappers with blind embossed Village Press crest to upper cover, sewn. Ransom's account of working with Frederic and Bertha Goudy in the spring and summer of 1903. Measures approx. 6. 5" x 9. 25".