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Sidney F. Huttner

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Amy Root Clements. The Art Of Prestige: The Formative Years At Knopf, 1915-1929. (2014), Sidney F. Huttner Dec 2014

Amy Root Clements. The Art Of Prestige: The Formative Years At Knopf, 1915-1929. (2014), Sidney F. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

Review of Amy Root Clements. The Art of Prestige: The Formative Years at Knopf, 1915-1929. Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. xi, 206 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-62534-093-1. In SHARP News 24:1 (2015), p. 14-15. 

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Tim Lacy. The Dream Of A Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler And The Great Books Idea. (2013), Sidney F. Huttner Dec 2013

Tim Lacy. The Dream Of A Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler And The Great Books Idea. (2013), Sidney F. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

Review of Tim Lacy. The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ix, 324 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-230-33746-6. In SHARP News 23:4 (Autumn 2014), page 14.

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John Bidwell. American Paper Mills, 1609-1832. (2013)., Sidney F. Huttner Dec 2013

John Bidwell. American Paper Mills, 1609-1832. (2013)., Sidney F. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

Review of John Bidwell. American Paper Mills 1609-1832, A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution, Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, in association with the American Antiquarian Society, 2013. In Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing SHARP News  23:1 (Winter 2014), p. 5.

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Introduction To A Register Of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers In New York City, 1821-1842, Sidney F. Huttner, Elizabeth S. Huttner Dec 1992

Introduction To A Register Of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers In New York City, 1821-1842, Sidney F. Huttner, Elizabeth S. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

The Register collects some 5,000 names and 50,000 addresses for craftspeople working in trades related to printing and publishing in New York City during the period 1821-1842. The Introduction, the only element offered here, discusses in detail the methodology used to compile the Register and details the joys and difficulties of working with early city directories as primary sources.

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Peepholes To The Past: American City Directories, Sidney F. Huttner Dec 1983

Peepholes To The Past: American City Directories, Sidney F. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

An exploration of how early American city directories can be used effectively in biographical and other historical research. The article primarily cites New York City directories 1786-1850.

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James B. Nicholson: _Manual Of The Art Of Bookbinding_ (1856), Sidney F. Huttner Dec 1979

James B. Nicholson: _Manual Of The Art Of Bookbinding_ (1856), Sidney F. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

Introduction to the 1980 Garland reprint edition of James B. Nicholson's Manual of the Art of Bookbinding, often cited as the first American manual of the craft. Nicholson (1820-1901), apprenticed with Weaver & Warnock, Philadelphia, in 1848 partnered with James Pawson to form the bookbinding firm Pawson & Nicholson, Bookbinders, (1848-1911). He was a dedicated Odd Fellow, becoming Seventeenth Grand Sire of the Sovereign Grand Lodge (i.e. chief executive of the national organization) in 1862.

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