urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00197 George Macy Companies: Limited Editions Club & The Heritage Press: A Preliminary Inventory of the Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., July 2003. Finding aid written in English. George Macy Companies: Limited Editions Club & The Heritage Press Art Collection ca. 1930-1967 6,751 items (221 boxes) Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin George Macy Companies: Limited Editions Club (1929-1985) & The Heritage Press (1935-1970) The collection consists of original artwork that were used in Limited Editions Club publications and a few that were used for The Heritage Press. The art files contain the work of over 100 artists including Miguel Covarrubias, Maynard Dixon, Andrew Derain, Roger Duvoisin, Robert Giddings, Bernard Lamotte, Reginald Marsh, and Edward A. Wilson. The collection includes original watercolors; pen and ink, wash, and charcoal drawings; colored overlays; proofs; original photographs; and photographic negatives.

Note:

This brief collection description is an accession record. The collection is not fully processed or cataloged; no biographical sketch, descriptions of series, or indexes are available.

 Acquisition:

Purchase, 1970

 Access:

A minimum of twenty-four hours is required to pull art materials to the reading room.

 Processed by:

Leslie Hirsch, Joan Sibley, 2003

 Scope and Contents

George Macy (1900-1956) founded the Limited Editions Club in 1929 to publish fine illustrated books, mostly classics, in limited numbers for member-subscribers. Most titles were limited to 1500 copies, were designed and illustrated by leading figures in the graphic arts, and were printed on fine paper. New introductions were written for many titles. From the base established by the Limited Editions Club, Macy broadened his publishing activities with The Heritage Press, a series of unlimited, less-expensively produced reprints of titles previously issued by the Limited Editions Club. After Macy's death in 1956, his wife continued the work of the firm until 1968 when son Jonathan assumed leadership. The firms were sold to the Boise-Cascade Company in 1970, and in 1979, Sidney Shiff purchased the Limited Editions Club.

The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970. These items herein described comprise the original art works that were used in Limited Editions Club publications; the few that were used for The Heritage Press are identified as such in the following list. The art files contain 6,751 items by over 100 artists, and include original watercolors; pen and ink, wash, and charcoal drawings; colored overlays; proofs; original photographs; and photographic negatives. Among the artists represented in the collection are Miguel Covarrubias, Maynard Dixon, Andrew Derain, Roger Duvoisin, Robert Giddings, Bernard Lamotte, Reginald Marsh, and Edward A. Wilson. The following list is arranged alphabetically by artist and then by book title.

The Art Collection also holds a separate Limited Editions Club collection of portfolios of prints and one group of loose prints by various artists which were published as illustrations for books issued by the club, 1988-2001. Related holdings elsewhere in the Ransom Center include correspondence files and pre-publication materials created by the firms, which are held in the Manuscripts Collection, as well as a number of the published works in the Library.

 For further information, see:

Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985. New York City: Limited Editions Club, 1985.

 George Macy Companies--List Alexeieff, Alexandre, The Gambler and Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1967, 56 items. 72.2.134A.1-56 Alexeieff, Alexandre, The Gambler and Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1967, 106 items. 72.2.134B.1-106 Alexeieff, Alexandre, The Gambler and Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1967, 6 items. 72.2.134C.1-6 Angelo, Valenti, The Koran, translated by Arthur Jeffery. 1958 28 items. 72.2.1.1-28 Angelo, Valenti, King John, William Shakespeare. 1939, 18 items. 72.2.2.1-18 Angelo, Valenti, The Song of Songs. 1935, 25 items. 72.2.3.1-16 Angelo, Valenti, Twice-Told Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1966, 105 items. 72.2.4.1-26 Angelo, Valenti, The Book of Psalms. 1960, 185 items. 72.2.144.1-185 Ardizzone, Edward, Richard III, William Shakespeare. 1939, 20 items. 72.2.5.1-20 Ardizzone, Edward, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, William Shakespeare. 1959, 32 items. 72.2.6.1-32 Austen, John, Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare. 1939, 12 items. 72.2.7.1-12 Austen, John, David Copperfield, Charles Dickens. 1935, 76 items. 72.2.8.1-76 Austen, John, The Frogs, Aristophanes. 1937, 10 items. 72.2.9.1-10 Austen, John, Lorna Doone, Richard Doddridge Blackmore. 1943, 36 items. 72.2.10.1-36 Austen, John, The Old Wives Tale, Arnold Bennett. 1941, 73 items. 72.2.11.1-73 Austen, John, Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith. 1939, 40 items. 72.2.12.1-40 Ball, Robert, Bleak House, Charles Dickens. 1942, 8 items. 72.2.13A.1-8 Ball, Robert, Waverly, Sir Walter Scott. 1961, 36 items. 72.2.13B.1-20 Bank, Arnold, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche. 1964, 21 items. 72.2.142.1-21 Bawden, Edward, Histories of Herodotus, translated by Harry Carter. 1958, 47 items. 72.2.14A.1-47 Bawden, Edward, Henry IV, Part II, William Shakespeare. 1939, 12 items. 72.2.14B.1-12 Ben Sussan, Rene, Volpone, Ben Jonson. 1952, 18 items. 72.2.15A.1-18 Ben Sussan, Rene, Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac. 1960, 20 items. 72.2.15B.1-20 Ben Sussan, Rene, The Cid, translated by Robert Southey. 1958, 16 items. 72.2.15C.1-16 Ben Sussan, Rene, The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare. 1939, 51 items. 72.2.15D.1-50 Ben Sussan, Rene, Sheridan's Plays, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. (Heritage Press) 1956, 99 items. 72.2.15E.1-99 Berg, Yngve, Cymbeline, William Shakespeare. 1939, 15 items. 72.2.17.1.-15 Blesso, S. J., The Spy, James Fenimore Cooper. (photostats) 1963, 19 items. 72.2.16A.1-19 Blesso, S. J., The Spy, James Fenimore Cooper. (photostats) 1963, 1 item. 72.2.16B. Brissaud, Pierre, Cyrano De Bergerac, Edmond Rostand. 1954, 89 items. 72.2.20.1-97 Brissaud, Pierre, The Memoirs of Saint-Simon, translated by Desmond Flower. 1959, 62 items. 72.2.21.1-62 Bohmer, Gunther & Floethe, Richard, All's Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare. 1939, 18 items. 72.2.18.1-18 Buday, George, Timon of Athens, William Shakespeare. 1939, 18 items. 72.2.22.1-18 Busoni, Rafaello, Pandora's Box, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1951, 13 items. 72.2.23 Cameron, Malcolm, The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk. 1952, 13 items. 72.2.24.1-13 Carnevali, Francesco, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare. 1939, 6 items. 72.2.25.1-6 Chamberlain, Samuel, The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams. 1942, 12 items. 72.2.26.1-12 Charlot, Jean, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. 1962, 16 items. 72.2.27.1-16 Charlot, Jean, Henry VI, Part III, William Shakespeare. 1939, 18 items. 72.2.28.1-18 Cleland, T. M., Essays of Michel de Montaigne. 1946, 7 items. 72.2.31.1-7 Cleland, T. M., The Way of the World, William Congreve. 1959, 3 items. 72.2.32.1-3 Cosgrave, John O'Hara, Old Creole Days, George Washington Cable. 1943, 29 items. 72.2.98.1-29 Covarrubias, Miguel, All Men Are Brothers, translated by Pearl S. Buck. 1948, 52 items. 72.2.130A.1-52 Covarrubias, Miguel, All Men Are Brothers, translated by Pearl S. Buck. 1948, 33 items. 72.2.130B.1-33 Covarrubias, Miguel, All Men Are Brothers, translated by Pearl S. Buck. 1948, 74 items. 72.2.130C.1-74 Covarrubias, Miguel, All Men Are Brothers, translated by Pearl S. Buck. 1948 48 items. 72.2.130D.1-48 Curry, John Steuart, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane. 1944 83 items. 72.2.132.1-83 Daniel, Lewis, Ulysses, James Joyce. (not used in final publication) 1935 18 items. 72.2.33.1-18 Daugherty, James, Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens. (Heritage Press) 1941 38 items. 72.2.34.1-31 Derain, Andre, Salome, Oscar Wilde. 1938 5 items. 72.2.35.1-5 Dignimont, Andre, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins. 1959 6 items. 72.2.36.1-6 Dixon, Maynard, Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman. 1943 9 items. 72.2.37.1-9 Du Bois, Guy Pène, South Wind, Norman Douglas. 1932 6 items. 72.2.19.1-6 Duvoisin, Roger, A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson. 1944 86 items. 72.2.30.1-86 Duvoisin, Roger, Mother Goose, William Rose Benet. (Heritage Press) 1936 89 items. 72.2.38A.1-89 Duvoisin, Roger, Mother Goose, William Rose Benet. (Heritage Press) 1936 57 items. 72.2.38B.1-57 Dwiggins, W. A., Tartarin of Tarascon, Alphonse Daudet. 1930 26 items. 72.2.39.1-26 Eichenberg, Fritz, Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy. 1963 75 items. 72.2.40.1-25 Erni, Hans, The Trial and Death of Socrates, Plato. 1962 35 items. 72.2.41.1-11 Falls, C. B., Two Medieval Tales, Robert Louis Stevenson. 1930 1 item. 72.2.42 Farleigh, John, Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus, translated by Rex Warner, and Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1965 16 items. 72.2.43.1-16 Floethe, Richard, See entry under Bohmer, Gunther & Floethe, Richard 0 items. Freedman, Barnett, Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy. 1951 24 items. 72.2.44A.1-24 Freedman, Barnett, Henry IV, Part I, William Shakespeare. 1939 16 items. 72.2.44B.1-16 Freeman, Don, Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New-York, Washington Irving. 1940 25 items. 72.2.45.1-25 Freitas, Lima de, Ferdinand and Isabella, William Hickling Prescott. 1967 118 items. 72.2.46.1-44 Frietas, Lima de, Nostromo, Joseph Conrad. 1961 58 items. 72.2.131 Galanis, Demetrios, Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare. 1939 4 items. 72.2.47A.1-4 Galanis, Demetrios, Oedipus the King, Sophocles. 1955 2 items. 72.2.47B.1-2 Gauguin, Paul, Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham. 1941 13 items. 72.2.48.1-13 Gentleman, David, The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss. 1963 58 items. 72.2.49.1-58 Gibbings, Robert, The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin. 1956 27 items. 72.2.50A.1-27 Gibbings, Robert, Othello, William Shakespeare. 1939 7 items. 72.2.50B.1-7 Gorsline, Douglas, The Complete Angler, Izaak Walton. 1948 108 items. 72.2.51A.1-67; 72.2.51B.1-31; 72.2.51C.1-10 Gorsline, Douglas, The Complete Angler, Izaak Walton. 1948 36 items. 72.2.51D.1-36 Gorsline, Douglas, The Complete Angler, Izaak Walton. 1948 10 items. 72.2.51E.1-10 Gorsline, Douglas, The Complete Angler, Izaak Walton. 1948 2 items. 72.2.51F.1-2 Grant, Gordon, The Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1945 42 items. 72.2.52.1-41 Guilbeau, Honore, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain. 1949 250 items. 72.2.53.1-250 Hassall, Joan, The Poems of Robert Burns. 1965 91 items. 72.2.54.1-74 Hayter, Stanley & Mugnaini, Joe, The Age of Fable, Thomas Bulfinch. 1958 63 items. 72.2.55.1-63 Henry, Everett, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. 1934 19 items. 72.2.56.1-19 Henry, Everett, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. 1934 18 items. 72.2.52A.1-13 Hermine, David, Princess of Cleves. 11 items. 72.2.47.1-11 Him, George, Two Plays for Puritans, George Bernard Shaw. 1966 16 items. 72.2.58B.1-16 Hoffman, Felix, The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann. 1962 123 items. 72.2.60.1-123 Hornung, Clarence, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. 1946 24 items. 72.2.61A.1-24 Hornung, Clarence, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. 1946 22 items. 72.2.61B.1-22 Hornung, Clarence, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. 1946 67 items. 72.2.61C.1-67 Hug, Charles, William Tell, Friedrich Schiller. 1951 33 items. 72.2.62.1-33 Hughes, Arthur, The Magic Crook or the Stolen Baby. 31 items. 76.109.1-31 Jackson, Everett Gee, Popul Vuh, The Book of the People. 2 items. 72.2.64.1-2 Jacques, Robin, Kim, Rudyard Kipling. 1962 20 items. 72.2.146.1-20 King, Alexander, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1933 31 items. 72.2.136A.1-31 King, Alexander, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1933 70 items. 72.2.136B.1-70 Knight, David, A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain. 1966 58 items. 72.2.65.1-58 Korach, Mimi, Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens. 1956 13 items. 72.2.66A.1-13 Korach, Mimi, Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens. 1956 69 items. 72.2.66B.1-69 Korach, Mimi, The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells. 1961 28 items. 72.2.67A.1-28 Korach, Mimi, The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells. 1961 34 items. 72.2.67B.1-34 Kredel, Fritz, The Complete Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen. 1949 1 item. 72.2.68.A1 Kredel, Fritz, The Complete Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen. 1949 131 items. 72.2.68A. 1-11, 16-24, 34, 39-134 Kredel, Fritz, The Complete Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen. 1949 163 items. 72.2.68B.1-163 Kredel, Fritz, The Complete Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen. 1949 61 items. 76.99.74-134 Kredel, Fritz, Emma, Jane Austen. 1964 58 items. 72.2.69.1-58 Kredel, Fritz, Henry V, William Shakespeare. 1939 24 items. 72.2.70.1-24 Kredel, Fritz, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain. 1962 200 items. 72.2.71.1-200 Kredel, Fritz, Slovenly Peter, Heinrich Hoffman. 1935 24 items. 72.2.72.1-24 Lamb, Lynton, Tono-Bungay, H. G. Wells. 1960 6 items. 72.2.73.1-6 Lamotte, Bernard, Swann's Way, Marcel Proust. 1954 1 item. 72.2.74.A1 Lamotte, Bernard, Swann's Way, Marcel Proust. 1954 1 item. 72.2.74.B1 Lamotte, Bernard, Swann's Way, Marcel Proust. 1954 48 items. 72.2.74.1-48 Lamotte, Bernard, Swann's Way, Marcel Proust. 1954 11 items. 72.2.74C.1-11 Lamotte, Bernard, Swann's Way, Marcel Proust. 1954 3 items. 72.2.74C.12-14 Lamotte, Bernard, Swann's Way, Marcel Proust. 1954 1 item. 72.2.74D Landacre, Paul, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, Ambrose Bierce. 1943 3 items. 72.2.75.1-3 Lapshin, Nikolai, The Travels of Marco Polo. 1934 80 items. 72.2.76.1-80 Legrand, Edy, Beauty and the Beast. 1949 9 items. 72.2.77.1-9 Legrand, Edy, Hamlet, William Shakespeare. 1939 7 items. 72.2.78.1-7 Legrand, Edy, The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas fils. 1964 34 items. 72.2.79.1-34 Legrand, Edy, Nibelungenlied, translated by Margaret Armour. 1960 12 items. 72.2.80.1-12 Legrand, Edy, The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas fils. 1953 81 items. 72.2.81.1-81 Legrand, Edy, Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas fils. 1958 66 items. 72.2.82.1-34, 50-81 Legrand, Edy, A Woman's Life, Guy de Maupassant. 1952 110 items. 72.2.83.1-110 Lydis, Mariette, Love's Labours Lost, William Shakespeare. 1939 5 items. 72.2.84.1-5 Lydis, Mariette, The Turn of the Screw, Henry James. 1949 15 items. 72.2.85.1-15 Mahn, Berthold, Germinal, Emile Zola. (Heritage Press) 1942 85 items. 72.2.135.1-85 Manning, Wray, Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens. 1951 48 items. 72.2.86.1-24 Marangoni, Tranquillo, Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo. 1960 3 items. 72.2.87.1-3 Marsh, Reginald, Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser. 1939 48 items. 72.2.88A.1-48 Marsh, Reginald, Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser. 1939 52 items. 72.2.88B.1-52 Martin, Fletcher, Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff. 1947 20 items. 72.2.89.1-20 Masereel, Frans, Notre Dame de Paris, Victor Marie Hugo. 1930 19 items. 72.2.91.1-19 Masereel, Frans, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare. 1939 6 items. 72.2.90.1-6 Matheson, Fredrik, Three Plays of Ibsen. 1964 172 items. 72.2.92.1-172 Metzl, Ervine, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare. 1939 18 items. 72.2.93.1-18 Molnar, C. P., Coriolanus, William Shakespeare. 1939 10 items. 72.2.94.1-10 Moy, Seong, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris. 1957 59 items. 72.2.95.1-59 Moyers, William, The Three Bears, Robert Southey. 1949 28 items. 72.2.96.1-28 Mozley, Charles, The Man of Property, John Galsworthy. 1964 62 items. 72.2.140.1-62 Mugnaini, Joe, See entry for Hayter, Stanley & Mugnaini, Joe 0 items. Oberle, Jean, The Gods Are A-thirst, Anatole France. (Heritage Press?) 1942 34 items. 72.2.97A.1-34 Oberle, Jean , The Gods Are A-thirst, Anatole France. (Heritage Press?) 1942 20 items. 72.2.97B.1-20 Ostoja-Chrostowski, Stanislas, Pericles, William Shakespeare. 1939 16 items. 72.2.29.1-16 Parker, Agnes Miller, Shakespeare's Tragedies. 1959 28 items. 72.2.99.1-28 Petrina, Carlotta, Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens. (Heritage Press) (not used in final publication) 1939 14 items. 72.2.100.1-14 Pierce, Waldo, Peer Gynt. (not used in final publication) 1955 21 items. 72.2.101.1-21 Poor, Henry Varnum, The Call of the Wild, Jack London. 1960 28 items. 72.2.102.1-28 Powers, Richard, The Pathfinder, James Fenimore Cooper. 1965 4 items. 72.2.143.1-4 Pydanok, K. Unidentified publication. 5 items. 72.2.103.1-5 Raymond, Charles, Hard Times, Charles Dickens. 1966 16 items. 72.2.141.1-16 Ricart, E. C., Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare. 1939 14 items. 72.2.104.1-14 Robinson, Boardman, Moby Dick, Herman Melville. 1943 87 items. 72.2.105.1-88 Robinson, Boardman, Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters. 1942 64 items. 72.2.106.1-64 Rosen, The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan, Louis Untermeyer. (not used in final publication) 1945 24 items. 72.2.107.1-24 Rosoman, Leonard, Woman in White, Wilkie Collins. 1964 40 items. 72.2.108.1-40 Ross, Gordon, The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, Joseph Addison. 1945 12 items. 72.2.109A.1-12 Ross, Gordon, The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, Joseph Addison. 1945 7 items. 72.2.109B.1-7 Ross, Gordon, The Jaunts and Jollities of Mr. John Jorrocks, Robert Smith Surtees. 1932 1 item. 72.2.110 Ross, Gordon, Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare. 1939 12 items. 72.2.111.1-12 Ross, Gordon, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Charles Dickens. 1938 7 items. 72.2.112.1-7 Rutherston, Albert, The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare. 1939 12 items. 72.2.113.1-6 Saalberg, Leslie, The Ambassadors, Henry James. 1963 7 items. 72.2.145.1-7 Schultheiss, Carl, The Ring and the Book, Robert Browning. 1949 25 items. 72.2.114.1-25 Sharp, William, The Wall, John Hersey. 1957 42 items. 72.2.116-1-42 Sharp, William, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 1951 12 items. 72.2.115.1-12 Sharp, William, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1959 130 items. 72.2.117.1-130 Simon, Oliver, The Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell. 1938 3 items. 72.2.139.1-3 Sotomayor, Antonio, Rainbow & Holyoke, D. H. Lawrence. 19 items. 72.2.118A.1-19 Sotomayor, Antonio, The Satyricon, translated by William Burnaby. 1964 25 items. 72.2.118B.1-25 Spencer, Donald, Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope. 1966 23 items. 72.2.119.1-23 Spurrier, Steven, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens. 1940 67 items. 72.2.120.1-67 Szyk, Arthur, Ink and Blood, Arthur Szyk. 1946 2 items. 72.2.121.1-2 Watrin, Pierre, The Revolt of the Angels, Anatole France. 1953 22 items. 72.2.133.1-22 Wilson, E. A., The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper. 1961 54 items. 72.2.123.1-54 Wilson, E. A., Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne. 1966 11 items. 72.2.124.1-11 Wilson, E. A., The Man Without a Country, Edward Everett Hale. 1936 8 items. 72.2.125.1-8 Wilson, E. A., Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne. 1962 21 items. 72.2.126A.1-21 Wilson, E. A., Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne. 1962 17 items. 72.2.126B.19-35 Wilson, E. A., The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne. 1959 44 items. 72.2.127.1-44 Wilson, E. A., A Shropshire Lad, Alfred Edward Housman. 1935 50 items. 72.2.128.1-50 Wilson, E. A., The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor. 1949 23 items. 72.2.129.1-23