Henry Wheaton, an appreciation : being the address delivered before the alumni of Brown University on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of his graduation, June seventeen, MDCCCCII

Marriott Library copy from the library of Sidney E. Berger. Merrymount Press began in 1893, when Daniel Berkeley Updike opened an office for advisory service in typographical problems. Influenced in the early days by William Morris, Updike soon developed the qualities that would become the hallmark of his own work as a book designer - simplicity of style, restraint in decoration, and an uncanny typographic unity - all to the effect of improved book production. The press printed everything from advertising leaflets to some of the finest books produced in the United States. Updike is rated as one of the foremost American typographers in the twentieth century and his strong influence continues today. After he died in 1941, the press continued under the able direction of John Bianchi until it closed in 1948.