Grolier Club. Committee on Modern Fine Printing.

Founded 1884 January 23 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." Exhibitions formed a part of the Club's program from the first and the 1902 constitution formally defined the dutie of the Committee as "the preparation, supervision, and charge of exhibitions." In 1972 the name was changed to the Committee on Public Exhibitions. In 1971 the Committee on Modern Fine Printing became a new standing committee of the Club with Robert Elwell as its first Chair; it was reconstituted in 1982. The Committee provides educational program to illustrate current trends in book design and printing; it has sponsored a number of exhibitions, often working with the Club's Committee on Small Exhibitions.