Grolier Club

The Grolier Club is a gentlemen's club and association of bibliophiles in New York. Founded in January 1884, it is the oldest existing " book lovers club " in North America. The club is named after Jean Grolier. The club statutes are: " the literary study of art in relation to the production of books, including the publication and Entwerfung the books to illustrate to promote and encourage in these arts and the acquisition, installation and maintenance of a suitable club building for the safekeeping of the assets, which take place in meetings lectures and exhibitions from time to time ... "

History

The founders of the club were William Loring Andrews, Theodore Low De Vinne, Alexander Wilson Drake, Albert Gallup, Robert Hoe, Brayton Ives, Samuel W. Martin, ES Mead, and Arthur B. Turnure. Perfection in the art of bookbinding is encouraged. Edwin Davis French engraved the club own bookplates and bookplate for many of its members.

The Grolier Club maintains a research library, specializing in books about bibliography and bibliophile, pressure (especially the history of printing and examples of fine printing ), binding, illustration and book trade. He has one of the most extensive collections of books about books auctions and booksellers catalogs in North America. The library preserves the archives of some of the prominent members such as Sir Thomas Phillipps and books lovers and publishers such as named the " Hroswitha Club of women book collectors " include Roswitha from Gander home.

Honorary members have included: Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1927 ) Bruce Rogers ( 1928), Henry Watson Kent (1930 ), Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1934), Rudolf Růžička (1946 ), Lawrence C. Wroth (1950), Carl Purington Rollins (1951 ), Elmer Adler (1952 ), Martin Bodmer (1964 ), Joseph Blumenthal (1967 ) and Mary Morley Crapo Hyde Eccles (1989 )

Corresponding members were Sir Emery Walker (1920 ), Alfred W. Pollard (1921 ), Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1922 ), Michael Sadleir (1925 ), Stanley Morison ( 1951), Giovanni Mardersteig (1964 ), Howard M. Nixon (1971 ), Nicolas Barker (1972 ), John Carter (1973 ), and Hermann Zapf ( 2003).

The Grolier Club has also supplied a program of public exhibitions, for " special books and prints worthy exhibitions on par with painting and sculpture as objects " The exhibitions are from various sources, including investments of the club, its members and the institutional libraries.

The Grolier Club had three sites was founded in 1884 since he. The first house was rented. 1890 drew the Grolier Club in a neuro manic building at 29 East 32nd Street. His current location is 47 East 60th Street in Midtown Manhattan and his home since 1917, the building was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue member in neo -Georgian style as a townhouse.

The Grolier Club is a member of the Fellowship of American Societies Bibliophile.

List of Presidents

The following persons have served the club as president:

  • Robert Hoe (1884-1888)
  • William Loring Andrews (1888-1892)
  • Beverly Chew (1892-1896)
  • Samuel Putnam Avery (1896-1900) Portrait: Medal in 1897 by Anton Scharff ( 1845-1903 )
  • Howard Mansfield (1900-1904)
  • Theodore Low De Vinne (1904-1906)
  • Edwin B. Holden (1906-1906)
  • Richard Hoe Lawrence (1906-1908)
  • William F. Havemeyer (1850-1913) (1908-1912)
  • Edward G. Kennedy (1912-1916)
  • Arthur Hawley Scribner (1916-1920)
  • Henry Watson Kent (1920-1924)
  • William B. Osgood Field (1924-1928)
  • Lucius Wilmerding (1928-1932)
  • William B. Ivins, Jr. (1932-1935)
  • Frederick Coykendall (1935-1939)
  • Harry T. Peters (1939-1943)
  • Edwin De T. Bechtel (1943-1947)
  • Frederick B. Adams, Jr. (1947-1951)
  • Irving S. Olds (1951-1955)
  • Arthur A. Houghton (1955-1957)
  • C. Waller Barrett (1957-1961)
  • Donald F. Hyde (1961-1965)
  • Gordon N. Ray (1965-1969)
  • Alfred H. Howell (1969-1973)
  • Robert H. Taylor (1973-1975)
  • Herman W. Liebert (1975-1978)
  • Robert D. Graff (1978-1982)
  • Frank S. Streeter (1982-1986)
  • G. Thomas Tanselle (1986-1990)
  • Kenneth A. Lohf (1990-1994)
  • William Bradford Warren (1994-1998)
  • William T. Buice III (1998-2002)
  • Carolyn L. Smith (2002-2006)
  • William H. Helfand (2006-2010)
  • Eugene S. Flame (2010 -)

Publications

The club has published editions of the following works:

  • Richard du Bury, Philobiblion
  • Robert Hoe, Catalogues of Early and Original Editions from Langland to Wither; Bookbinding as a Fine Art
  • William Matthews, Modern Bookbinding
  • Theodore Low De Vinne, Historic Printing Types
  • George William Curtis, Washington Irving
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