14                             Caroline F. Schimmel

B. Schimmel, the New York Public Library (which also received
from Fass his extensive collection of New York City photo¬
graphs) , Amherst College, the Rochester Institute of Technology,
and the Universities of California, Kentucky, and Texas. The col¬
lection at Columbia was acquired over the years by means of the
Albert Ulmann Fund. One of the joys, and frustrations, of these
collectors is that no one will ever have a "complete" collection, or
even all the variants of one large edition: each of seven examined
copies of Some Oriental Versions of the Turtle (1952) is signifi¬
cantly different. This was the skill of Fass: to combine a small se¬
lection of fonts and ornaments in infinite variet)', and to matcli
the texture and colors of inks and papers with subtle, understand¬
ing care.