ALS : Birmingham [Eng.], to William Loring Andrews, New York City, 1890 Mar. 3.

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ALS : Birmingham [Eng.], to William Loring Andrews, New York City, 1890 Mar. 3.

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With this autograph letter Brassington evidently enclosed a prospectus for his projected book, Historic bookbindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and asked the Grolier Club to subscribe to the costs of publication. (The club did acquire a copy of the book, published in 1891.) He asked also if the club would be interested in reproducing three seventeenth century tracts published in England that relate to the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies. The club declined to do so.

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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...

Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939

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Brassington was an English bibliographer and antiquary. From the description of ALS : Birmingham [Eng.], to William Loring Andrews, New York City, 1890 Mar. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145382395 ...

Andrews, William Loring, 1837-1920

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Bibliophile. From the description of Letters of William Loring Andrews [manuscript], 1894 May 24 & Aug. 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821540 Book collector, amateur publisher, writer and a founding member of the Grolier Club (1884) and of the Society of Iconophiles. Author of over twenty books about prints, book collecting, and the book arts, Andrews became a director of the Continental Assurance Company in 1875 and chaired its Committee on Account...