Manuscript travel diaries, 1959-1976.

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Manuscript travel diaries, 1959-1976.

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The collection consists of five leather-bound and twelve spiral-bound diaries documenting Hugo's trips to Europe between 1959 and 1976. The leather-bound volumes document trips made with the Grolier Club and have tipped-in or mounted ephemera (menus and wine lists, tickets, postcards, programs and a few photographs). Of special interest is the diary Hugo keptof the Grolier Club's "iter Italicum," a trip to Italy in 1962; it is bound in blue morocco gilt by the Harcourt Bindery of Boston, Massachusetts; the final seven leaves contain signatures of Grolier Club members in the group.

12 v. ; 25 cm. and smaller.

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Grolier Club

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Harcourt Bindery

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Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 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." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Hugo, Harold.

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The scholarly printer E. Harold Hugo was associated with the Meriden Stinehour Press in Meriden, Connecticut, for many years and was a member of the Grolier Club, a New York bibliophile society. He went on several trips organized by the club to visit major libraries and collections in England, Holland and Italy as well as on trips of a more general nature in Europe. He died in 1985. From the description of Manuscript travel diaries, 1959-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577057...