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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Samuel R. Rosenthal
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Inventory of the Rosenthal/Mardersteig Collection, 1954-1994
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Alison Hinderliter, 2006. ©2005. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Rosenthal, Samuel R. |
| Title | Rosenthal/Mardersteig Collection |
| Dates | 1954-1994, |
| Extent | .75 cubic ft. (2 boxes) |
| Abstract | Correspondence and subject files relating to Samuel R. Rosenthal’s collection of the work of Giovanni Mardersteig (1892-1977) and his Officina Bodoni press (1923-1977). |
| Language | Materials are primarily in English, with some in Italian and German. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Wing Modern MS RosOB |
| Collection Stack Location | 3A 52 9 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Rosenthal/Mardersteig Collection, The John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Bequest of Samuel R. Rosenthal, 1994.
Processed by
Alan Leopold and Paul F. Gehl, July-August 2006.
Access
The Rosenthal/Mardersteig Collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Rosenthal/Mardersteig Collection is the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Samuel R. Rosenthal
Lawyer, philanthropist and book collector. Samuel R. Rosenthal was a long-time senior partner of the law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, specializing in probate and estate law. Rosenthal was born in Manistique, Mich., served in the Army in World War I, and earned an A.B. in 1921 from the University of Michigan and a law degree in 1924 from Harvard. He went to work at the Sonnenschein firm in 1926 and became a partner in 1937. He and his wife Marie-Louise were active philanthropists and book collectors. Mr. Rosenthal served as trustee of the Newberry Library from 1965 to the time of his death. One of Mr. Rosenthal’s many collecting interests was the work of Giovanni Mardersteig and his Officina Bodoni press. Rosenthal’s collection was notable for including not only books of the press but also many ephemeral and privately printed pieces, some produced in editions as small as ten copies.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
The collection consists largely of Samuel R. Rosenthal’s correspondence with Giovanni Mardersteig and with collectors, scholars, and book dealers who shared his admiration for the work of the Officina Bodoni. Many pieces of Officina Bodoni ephemera are included. Materials in the collection date from 1954 to 1994, but the bulk concerns Rosenthal’s most active period of collecting from 1969 to1989. Correspondents include Bruce Beck, Herman Cohen, John Ryder, Hans Schmoller, and James M. Wells.
Mr. Rosenthal’s copies of books by and about Mardersteig, some 141 items, are individually cataloged in the on-line catalog with a tracing (“author” search) for the “Rosenthal/Mardersteig Collection.”
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Arrangement
Organized by type of material: general correspondence (folders 1-17); individual-publication correspondence (folders 18 - 62); other Officina Bodoni collections (folders 63-65); and publications about Giovanni Mardersteig (folders 66 - 79). Individual publication correspondence is arranged by OB numbers, according to the standard bibliography of Mardersteig’s output, Hans Schmoller’s Officina Bodoni, (Verona, 1980).
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Beck, Bruce
- Cohen, Herman, d. 1997
- Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977
- Newberry Library -- Exhibitions
- Officina Bodoni
- Officina Bodoni -- Exhibitions
- Rosenthal, Samuel R.
- Ryder, John, 1917-
- Schmoller, Hans
- Wells, James M.
Subjects
- Book collecting – Illinois – Chicago
- Book collectors – Illinois – Correspondence
- Manuscripts, American--Illinois--Chicago
- Private presses – Italy – Verona
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Container List |
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Beck, Bruce, 1981-1982 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Chiesa, Carlo Alberto, 1978-1981 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3-4 | Cohen, Herman and Vivian, 1971-1979 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Dreyfus, John, 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Fern, Alan, 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Heller, Joshua, 1986 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8-10 | Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1971-1977 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Mardersteig, Martino, 1977-1986 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Ryder, John, 1954-1986 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13-15 | Schmoller, Hans and Tanya, 1978-1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Wells, James, (includes letters from Mardersteig to Wells), 1971-1973 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Miscellaneous correspondence | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | OB2-4, early Montagnola imprints | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | OB6, Goethe, Roemische Carnival, 1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | OB9, Foscolo, 1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21-22 | OB15, Morison Arrighi, 1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | OB116-17n, Plato, 1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | OB25, Patonchi specimen, 1928 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | OB27, Andres Brun, 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | OB32, Officina Bodoni prospectus, 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | OB35, Hewlitt, Madonna, 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | OB36, Mercator, 1936 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | OB40, D'Annunzio, L'Oleandro, 1936 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30-31 | OB46, Boccaccio, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | OB70, Lewis, Graveyard, 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | OB72, Giustiniani, Strambotti, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | OB121, Feliciano, Alphabetum, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | OB126, Gospels, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | OB127, Burchiello, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | OB153, Pushkin, Cavaliere, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | OB155, Sophocles, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | OB156, Bodoni, Manuale, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | OB158, Ferreri, In die festo natalis, 1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | OB167, Bembo, De Aetna, 1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | OB168, Sermini, Cinque novelle, 1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | OB173, Duerer, Passion, 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44-45 | OB176, Terence, Andria, 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | OB179, Garzo, Le rime, 1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | OB180, Montale, Il poeta, 1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | OB182, Aesop, 1973 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | OB185, Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | OB190, Barduzzi, 1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | OB193, Gogol, Overcoat, 1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | OB196, Seven Sages, 1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | OB197, Musaeus, 1977 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | OB198, MacDiarmid, 1977 | |||||||||
| 2 | 55 | Benson Arrighi, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 56 | In Fair Verona, 1978 | |||||||||
| 2 | 57 | Barr, Officina Bodoni, 1978 | |||||||||
| 2 | 58 | Giovanni Mardersteig, 1989 | |||||||||
| 2 | 59 | Joyce, The Dead, 1985 | |||||||||
| 2 | 60 | Schmoller, 1980, special edition | |||||||||
| 2 | 61 | Trevlyn, Two Poems, 1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 62 | Miscellaneous notes and clippings | |||||||||
| 2 | 63 | Lewis Reines Officina Bodoni collection, 1989 | |||||||||
| 2 | 64 | University of San Francisco Officina Bodoni collection | |||||||||
| 2 | 65 | The Newberry Library Officina Bodoni collection | |||||||||
| 2 | 66 | Monotype booklet, 1967 | |||||||||
| 2 | 67 | Private Library special issue, 1972 | |||||||||
| 2 | 68 | Trivulziana exhibit, 1979 | |||||||||
| 2 | 69 | Library of Congress exhibit, 1979 | |||||||||
| 2 | 70-72 | Newberry Library exhibit, 1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 73 | Fine Print article, 1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 74 | Book Collector article, 1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 75 | Grolier Club exhibit, 1992 | |||||||||
| 2 | 76-79 | Miscellaneous articles about Mardersteig | |||||||||