Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984

Scope and Contents

The collection contains original artwork for book jackets and lettering by Skaggs and others, notably William Addison Dwiggins. There is a group of printed book jackets designed by Skaggs. Also contains correspondence from numerous other calligraphers, artists and designers including Oswald Bruce Cooper and Raymond F. DaBoll, as well as printed ephemera by them.

Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence from many of the authors the Bookshop sponsored in its lecture series and friends of the store including Martha Gilbert Bianchi, Grace Coolidge, Elizabeth A. Drew, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Christopher Morley, Elizabeth Morrow and Hugh Walpole. There are photographs of the store and the authors, ephemera, book and gift catalogs and a file of The Book Scorpion, a publication that it issued eriodically. There are scrapbooks containing...

Abstract

Class of 1918, Professor of English, author. Collection contains biographical material, correspondence, examinations, lectures, publications, and student papers.