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Chapbook, The Chapbook, a Monthly Miscellany
This is a Chapbook. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and edited by Harold Monro and published by The Poetry Bookshop and printed by Westminster Press.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Brian Webb as part of Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
In 1912, the poet Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop, which became an important gathering place for writers, critics, and admirers of poetry and literature in London. Monro commissioned Kauffer for the cover of his monthly Chapbook, which featured essays, stories, plays, poetry, and criticism. Kauffer also designed a colorful shop sign that made headlines when it hung outside the Poetry Bookshop’s new location in 1926.
It is credited Private Collection, London.
Its dimensions are
H x W: 22.5 × 17.5 cm (8 7/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
