Papers relating to the preparation of The library of Jean Grolier: a preliminary catalogue, 1965-1995 (bulk 1965-1971).

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Papers relating to the preparation of The library of Jean Grolier: a preliminary catalogue, 1965-1995 (bulk 1965-1971).

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Austin's work is a complete revision of Researches concerning Jean Grolier, his life and library published by the Grolier Club in 1907. This book was largely a translation by Carolyn Shipman (with some additions) ofa work by [Antoine Jean Victor] Le Roux de Lincy, which appeared about 1868. The Austin collection includes: holograph notes and some photocopies of articles; correspondence (mainly dealing with location and identification of books from Grolier's library); and photographs and plates (illustrations) relating to The library of Jean Grolier (1971). Also: preliminary draft with corrections. Correspondents include: Erwinna Brin, George Heilbrun, Anthony Hobson, A.L.N. Munby, Howard E. Nixon, and Arthur Rau.

4 boxes (1.8 linear ft.)photographs 17.contact sheets 17.plates (ill.) 36.

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Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974

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Librarian of King's College, Cambridge. From the description of Letters : Cambridge, England, to Seymour Adelman, Philadelphia, Pa., 1968 Aug. 7 - Sept. 18. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25224126 Epithet: Librarian King's College Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x0000e2 Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) collected over 60,000 manuscripts from Britain, Europe and th...

Austin, Gabriel

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Gabriel Austin was curator of the Grolier Club (a society for bibliophiles located in New York City) from 1963 to 1965 and librarian from 1965 to 1970. Jean Grolier was a French court official and bibliophile who served in various capacities under Louis XII, Francois I, Henry II and Charles IX. He was a patron of French and Italian scholarship and printing. Grolier's extensive library may have numbered as many as 3,000 volumes, and he commissioned elaborate bindings for many of them. The collect...

Heilbrun, Georges

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Le Roux de Lincy, 1806-1869

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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...

Hobson, Anthony, 1944-

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Shipman, Carolyn

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Grolier, Jean, 1479-1565

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Brin, E. (Erwinna)

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Rau, Arthur H

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Nixon, Howard M.

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