Alderbrink Press
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Alderbrink Press was a book publishing firm in Chicago run by Ralph Fletcher Seymour
from 1897 until 1965.
The Alderbrink Press maintained the traditions of the Arts and Crafts Movement
. One early appreciation of its work said that it published "a variety of books in various styles, but all show great care in fitting together traits and materials which harmonize, and not a few deserve unreserved praise."
Among the works that appeared under its imprint were Frank Lloyd Wright
's The Japanese Print (1912) and Experimenting with Human Lives (1923), and Alice Corbin's Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico (1920). It published Henry Blake Fuller
's Bertram Cope's Year
(1919).
Ralph Fletcher Seymour
Ralph Fletcher Seymour was an American artist, author, and publisher of the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries...
from 1897 until 1965.
The Alderbrink Press maintained the traditions of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...
. One early appreciation of its work said that it published "a variety of books in various styles, but all show great care in fitting together traits and materials which harmonize, and not a few deserve unreserved praise."
Among the works that appeared under its imprint were Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
's The Japanese Print (1912) and Experimenting with Human Lives (1923), and Alice Corbin's Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico (1920). It published Henry Blake Fuller
Henry Blake Fuller
Henry Blake Fuller was a United States novelist and short story writer, born in Chicago, Illinois.-Career:Fuller's earliest works were travel romances set in Italy that featured allegorical characters...
's Bertram Cope's Year
Bertram Cope's Year
Bertram Cope's Year is a 1919 novel by Henry Blake Fuller, sometimes called the first American homosexual novel.-Publication and reception:Fuller completed work on the novel in May 1918...
(1919).
Additional Sources
- Roderick Cave The Private Press (1983)
- Paul F. Gehl, Susan F. Rossen , Inland Printers: The Fine Press Movement in Chicago, 1920-45 (2003)
- Jan Poortenaar, Maurits Sabbe , The Art of the Book and its Illustration (1935)
- Will Ransom, Private Presses and their Books (1929)