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THE KENTUCKY

REVIEW Volume XI Number 3 Autumn 1992

CONTENTS

THE BOOK ARTS

The Private Press Tradition in Lexington, Kentucky by Burton Milward ........ . .. . ... ... ....... .. ... .. .. ....................... 5

Thirty-Five Years of the King Library Press: A Dialogue with Carolyn Reading Hammer by Paul Evans Holbrook . .. . ......... .. ...... . ..... .. .... ................. 28

Miss Clara Peck, Book Collector by Robert Nikirk ... ..... ........... . ....... ............ ... ... ......... ...... 44

Preservation and the Book Arts: An Interview with George M. Cunha by Karen T . Ellenberg .................................................... 58

LIBRARY NOTES Larkspur Press: A Bibliography 1975-1990

by Clara Keyes .. . ............. .. .. . . .. ... . .. . ........... . .................. 69 Selected Acquisitions .......... . ........ . ......... .. . .. . . ........... ....... . .. 91

THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATES Activities .......................... . ...... . ......... . ... ................. .. ...... 96 Members .. ..... ...... . .. .... .. . .. .. .. ..... . ...................................... 101

CONTRIBUTORS

George M. Cunha is Director Emeritus of the North East Document Conservation Center and former Chief Conservator at the library of the Boston Athenaeum. He is the author of books and articles relating to archival preservation and is a well-known consultant in that field. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Society of American Archivists, and the American Institute for Conservation.

Karen T. Ellenberg is a member of the staff of the University of Kentucky Libraries and was formerly at the Libraries of Clemson University. She serves as an apprentice at the King Library Press and also recently completed an internship at the Library of Congress.

Carolyn R. Hammer was formerly Curator of Rare Books at the University of Kentucky. She is well-known for her activities in the area of modern fine printing, having printed at the Bur Press, the Stamperia del Santuccio, and currently at the Anvil Press. In 1956 she founded the King Library Press, which continues today as a teaching laboratory press. She is the author of essays on Victor Hammer and Robert H. Middleton as well as on other topics in the field of private press publishing.

Paul Evans Holbrook is Director of the King Library Press in the Division of Special Collections and Archives, University of Kentucky Libraries. He teaches in the Department of Philosophy and serves as bibliographer to the estate of Victor Hammer.

Clara Keyes is head of the Department of Special Collections at Morehead State University's Camden-Carroll Library. She is a contributing author to The Kentucky Encyclopedia, and is currently pursuing her interests in the book arts, including bookbinding and the conservation of books.

Burton Milward, a former journalist with the Lexington Leader and an assistant editor with the Henry Clay Papers Project, is well-known as a local historian. In addition to many essays and reviews, he is the author of books on the Transylvania Printing Company, the Lexington Cemetery, and William "King" Solomon. A longtime collector of historical Lexington printing, he has been particularly attentive to the work of Lexington's private presses.

Robert Nikirk, widely known as a bibliographical scholar, was librarian of New York's Grolier Club for twenty years, beginning in 1970. He served previously in the rare book department at Park-Bernet Galleries, where he assisted in preparing the catalogue of the Thomas W. Streeter Collection, now a classic reference resource in Americana . He was a Fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library, a Trustee of the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and, from 1981 to 1983, Chairman of the Museums Council of New York.