Records, 1979-

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Records, 1979-

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Minutes, agendas, appraisals, and reports, mainly from the 1980s, including a sale of selected prints at Christies in 1980-1981. Also: a copy of List of paintings and prints now displayed on the walls of the Grolier Club, compiled by Edward G. Kennedy (1931) and valuations and other material relating to the print collection, ca. 1917-1930.

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Grolier Club

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Grolier Club

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Grolier Club. Committee on Prints, Drawings and Photographs.

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The Club was established in 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors and named in honor of the French bibliophile, Jean Grolier (1479-1565) with the object, as stated its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." In the early years the collecting interests of a number of members included works on paper, especially prints (including etchings, lithographs and mezzotints), and the Club acquired many, by both gift and purchase, I...

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...

Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie), 1849-1932

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Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) was an American art dealer, collector and connoisseur of books and prints. He began his career as an art dealer in Boston in the late 1860s. A decade later he joined the New York firm of Wunderlich & Company; in the 1890s he became head of the firm and changed the name to Kennedy & Company. From the guide to the Edward Guthrie Kennedy papers, 1889-1918, 1889-1902, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Grolier Club. Ad-Hoc Committee on Prints, Drawings and Photographs.

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Freidus, Bert,

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