Research Catalog

Title

Richard-Gabriel Rummonds papers, 1948-2010.

Author

Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Fletcher, Cora C.

Description

86 linear feet (178 boxes, 2 volumes), 77.8 mb (2 computer files)

Summary

Richard-Gabriel Rummonds (1931- ), is a noted hand-press printer and the founder, printer, and publisher of the Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia Press which published fine art limited editions of poetry and prose by contemporary authors. He has taught printing at the University of Alabama and Cornish College (Seattle) and is the author of the manual Printing on the Iron Handpress (1997), Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress (2004), as well as numerous essays and lectures on the book arts. Collection consists of records of the Plain Wrapper Press and Rummonds' personal and professional papers 1948-2010. Correspondence with friends, relatives, business associates, and professional colleagues documents his careers as industrial and book designer, commercial attaché in Quito, Ecuador, and later, iron hand-press printer and founder of the Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia Press, writer and educator. Plain Wrapper Press records include correspondence, production files of manuscripts, proof-sheets and galleys; engravings and lino-cuts; samples of bindings, papers, covers, and completed books, keepsakes, and other examples of his printing. The collection also includes copies of Rummonds essays and lectures and drafts of his books, including an unpublished autobiography, Fantasies and Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer.

Subjects

• Diplomatic and consular service, American > Ecuador
• Industrial designers
• Engravings
• Ex Ophidia (Firm)
• Printing
• Correspondence
• Gorgas Oak Press
• Private presses
• Seminarians
• Commercial attachés
• Plain Wrapper Press
• Publishers
• Americans > Foreign countries
• Transparencies
• Publishers and publishing
• Industrial design
• Zanella, Alessandro
• Drawings
• Book design
• Authors, American
• Printers

Genre/Form

• Correspondence.
• Drawings.
• Engravings.
• Transparencies.

Access (note)

• Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

MssCol 2645

OCLC

NYPW92-A225

Author

Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel.

Title

Richard-Gabriel Rummonds papers, 1948-2010.

Restricted Access

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Indexes

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Occupation

Commercial attachés.

Industrial designers.

Printers.

Publishers.

Seminarians.

Added Author

Fletcher, Cora C., creator.

Research Call Number

MssCol 2645