title:
Carl Purington Rollins and the Bibliographical Press at Yale University
creator:
Ruffin, Katherine
subject:
Dissertations, Academic.
description:
The history of the Bibliographical Press at Yale University, which was established by Carl Purington Rollins (1880‐1960), sits at the intersection of the histories of libraries, bibliography, and printing. Rollins’s career had two distinct phases: he worked as a letterpress printer in utopian and cooperative communities in western Massachusetts and from 1918 to 1948, he was employed by Yale University. Rollins designed 2,000 and 8,000 pieces in the role of Printer to Yale University. Rollins founded a teaching press called the Bibliographical Press and supported the establishment of presses located in residential colleges.In 1927, Rollins established the Bibliographical Press in affiliation with the Yale University Library in order to teach the traditional practices of book production. Between 1928 and 1939, Rollins taught a course called “18th Century Printing Office Practice” to graduate students, librarians, and undergraduates. Rollins taught his students the practices of papermaking, composition of type, and printing on the hand press. The students produced limited edition pamphlets in a variety of formats. In addition to teaching at the Bibliographical Press, Rollins consulted colleges, universities, and museums regarding how to teach letterpress printing.Through exploring the ways that the design and printing practices and aesthetic and social ideals Rollins developed in the early part of his career influenced his work at Yale and his advice to others regarding the establishment of bibliographic presses, this research provides an important historical context for the inclusion of hands-on processes in book studies today.
publisher:
Simmons College (Boston, Mass.)
contributor:
date:
2015
type:
Text
format:
1 PDF (319 Pages)
identifier:
td_lis_2015_kr
source:
language:
English
relation:
coverage:
rights:
Material from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any material, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu.