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 association" in North America. The club is named after Jean Grolier . The club's bylaws are: “The literary study of the arts relating to the making of books, including the publication and design of the books to illustrate, promote and encourage in those arts, and the acquisition, establishment and maintenance of suitable club building for the safekeeping of assets, with lectures and exhibitions taking place from time to time in meetings ... "
history
The club's founders 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's own bookplate as well as bookplates for many of its members.
The Grolier Club maintains an academic library specializing in books on bibliography and bibliophilia, printing (especially the history of printing and examples of fine printing), binding, illustration and bookshops. He has one of the largest collections of books through book auctions and booksellers catalogs in North America. The library preserves the archives of some of the prominent members such as Sir Thomas Phillipps and of book lovers and publishers such as the "Hroswitha Club of women book collectors" named after Roswitha von Gandersheim .
Honorary members 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 also has a program of public exhibitions, for “special books and prints to be considered objects worthy of exhibitions on par with painting and sculpture”. The exhibitions are fed from a variety of sources, including contributions from the club, its members and the institutional libraries .
The Grolier Club has had three locations since it was founded in 1884. The first house was rented. In 1890 the Grolier Club moved to a neo-Romanesque building at 29 East 32nd Street. Its current location is 47 East 60th Street in Midtown Manhattan and its home since 1917, the building was designed as a townhouse by member Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in a neo-Georgian style.
The Grolier Club is a member of the Fellowship of American Societies Bibliophile .
List of presidents
The following people have served as presidents for the club:
- Robert Hoe (1884-1888)
- William Loring Andrews (1888-1892)
- Beverly Chew (1892-1896)
- Samuel Putnam Avery (1896–1900) Portrait: Medal 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 Barret (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. Flamm (2010-)
Publications
The club has published editions of the following works:
- Richard du Bury , Philobiblion
- Robert Hoe, Catalogs of Early and Original Editions from Langland to Wither; Bookbinding as a Fine Art
- William Matthews, Modern Book Binding
- Theodore Low De Vinne , Historic Printing Types
- George William Curtis , Washington Irving
Individual evidence
- ^ The Grolier Club, Constitution, Article I, section 2. 2005 edition.
- ^ Members of the Grolier Club, 1884-2009 (New York: Grolier Club, 2009), pp. 9-12.
- ↑ Exhibitions ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website of the FAB Fellowship of American Bibliophiles ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A list of club presidents, complete to 2009, appeared in Members of the Grolier Club, 1884-2009 (New York: Grolier Club, 2009), pp. 158-159. A previous list, complete to 1982, appeared in Members of the Grolier Club, 1884-1984 (New York: Grolier Club, 1986), pp. 149-150.
