Dorothy Abbe, Her Work and WAD by Anne C. Bromer

2001—Co-published by the Society of Printers and the Boston Public Library

Limited to 500 copies, fewer than 25 copies remain.

Profusely illustrated in color and b/w. The story of Abbe's contributions to printing, book design, typography, photography, writing and teaching. The book covers her early years as a book designer at several university presses, her life in the household of William Addison and Mabel Dwiggins, the joint publishing venture between Abbe and Dwiggins, as well as her self-taught venture into portrait and landscape photography, and the publication of her two important texts: The Dwiggins Marionettes and Stenciled Ornaments.

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