Robert Hoe III

Robert Hoe, Robert Hoe III. ( Born March 10, 1839 in New York City; † September 22, 1909 in London) was an American businessman, producer and collector.

Life

Robert Hoe was the nephew of Richard March Hoe and its successors in the company R. Hoe & Company, a printing press manufacturers. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Grolier Club, named after Jean Grolier, the famous New York organization for the promotion of bookmaking as art. He was an ambitious collector of rare books and manuscripts as well as silver, miniatures and other art objects. The value of his collections at the time of his death was estimated at several million dollars. The catalogs of his library were unique in the typographic design and from the bibliographical point of view.

Works (English)

  • A Short History of the Printing Press (New York, 1902)
  • Bookbinding as a Fine Art ( Grolier Club, New York, 1886)
  • Magazine » Maberly 's " Print Collector ( 1880).

Literature (English)

  • Consult a postage and fragmentary biographical sketch by Gilliss in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 41; (New York, 1910).
  • Encyclopedia Americana. Hoe, Robert ( Manufacturers ) 1920
  • Appletons ' Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Hoe, Robert 1892.
  • New International Encyclopedia Hoe ( family). In 1905.
  • F. Moore, Gilman, Thurston: " New International Encyclopedia", New York: Dodd, Mead. (1905).
  • Entrepreneur
  • Art Collector
  • Bibliophile
  • Americans
  • Born in 1839
  • Died in 1909
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