Exhibitions, 1965 - 1977

Series — Box: 2, Folder: 17

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Stanbrook Abbey Press collection contains 3.5 linear feet of materials created by the Press and its head printer, Sister Hildelith Cumming, between 1950 and 1989. Press materials make up the bulk of the collection and include bookplates, broadsides, greeting and prayer cards, exhibition programs, invitations, pamphlets, poems, prayers, prospectuses, and specimen pages. Correspondence is made up of letters from Sister Hildelith to collectors Philip and Mary McNiff and Thomas F. O'Connell as well as a small number of letters from other parties working with Sister Hildelith. Exhibition materials provide useful background on the Stanbrook Abbey Press and details about exhibited materials. Some of the leaflets were also printed by the Press, and one has inlaid photographs.

Oversized materials in Series II., IX., and XII. are located in Box 4.

Dates

Creation: 1965 - 1977

Creator

From the Collection: Stanbrook Abbey. Press (Organization)
From the Collection: McNiff, Mary Stack, -1976 (Correspondent, Person)
From the Collection: Adams, Margaret, 1912-1996 (Calligrapher, Person)
From the Collection: Nicholson, David, 1919-2009 (Correspondent, Person)
From the Collection: Five Seasons Press (Correspondent, Organization)
From the Collection: Cumming, Hildelith (Contributor, Person)
From the Collection: Lawrence, Simon, 1958- (Correspondent, Person)
From the Collection: Stanbrook Abbey. Press (Organization)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Materials are written predominantly in English, with some Latin.

Access Note

Collection is open for research. Some items, particularly in Series IX. and X., have been hand-illustrated and illuminated by Margaret and Henry Adams. Please do not directly touch the illustrations; this helps preserve their detail.