Papers, [ca. 1906-1925]

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Papers, [ca. 1906-1925]

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Items printed for the Grolier Club, including invitations and exhibit announcements. Also printed material sent to Gilliss. Some Grolier Club correspondence and a duplicate set of annual meeting minutes (1906-1910), including lists of candidates for seats on the Club council in 1909. A small amount of personal material includes Christmas cards and photographs, including one of Gilliss with a group of employees from Doubleday gathered around a sundial he designed for the home of Frank Nelson Doubleday in Garden City, New York.

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Grolier Club

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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...

Gilliss, Walter, 1855-1925

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New York City printer who operated the Gilliss Press with his brother Frank and was known for his classic taste in book design. Walter Gilliss served as typographical advisor to Doubleday, Page & Co., while his own press printed over 300 books for private individuals and bibliophile societies. His masterpiece of design and execution is generally considered to be The iconography of Manhattan Island by I. N. Phleps Stokes. Gilliss was a founding member of the Grolier Club in 1884 and served as...

Doubleday and Company, inc.

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Biographical Note 1906, Feb. 25 Born, Madison, N.J. 1928 A.B., Willamette University,Salem, Oreg. 1930 Clerk, Doubleday & Co.'s Pennsylvania Station bookstore, New York, N.Y. 1934 ...