Records of the Committee on Publications, 1884-1983.

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Records of the Committee on Publications, 1884-1983.

Records relating to the books, exhibition catalogues and medallions published by the Grolier Club during its first century. The material includes: minutes and reports; inventories and invoices; stock books; manuscripts and typescripts; correspondence; cost estimates; photographs; printers' proofs; production notes and trial pages. Correspondents include but are not limited to: Frank Altschul, Frank; Douglas F. Bauer; Theodore Besterman; T. M. Clelland; Jean Furstenberg; E. P. Goldschmidt; Frederic Goudy; Robert D. Graff; Ruth S. Granniss; William Ivins; Henry Watson Kent; Flora Livingston; John Henry Nash; A. W. Pollard; Elizabeth Riley; George M. Schieffelin; Daniel Berkely Updike and Monroe Wheeler. The files relating to individual publications often contain autograph and typed letters signed by the authors an illustrators.

38 boxes (21 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6830887

Grolier Club

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Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-1949

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Flora Virginia Milner was born in 1862. She was the daughter of Jehu Milner and Mary Queen. Flora graduated from the Cleveland Female Seminary. She lived in Hays, Kansas from 1878 to 1880, then moved to Bozeman, Montana, where she taught school. She married Luther S. Livingston in 1891, and they lived in Grand Rapids, Montana, and fron there, they moved to Scarsdale, New York. Luther Samuel Livingston (1864-1914) was an American bibliophile and scholar. He was the first curator of the Har...

Besterman, Theodore, 1904-1976. Correspondence.

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Graff, Robert D., 1919-

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Sean O'Casey was an Irish playwright. From the guide to the Robert D. and Marjorie Graff Sean O'Casey collection, 1916-1980., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Robert D. and Marjorie S. Graff are book collectors who maintain their private library in Far Hills, New Jersey. Robert S. Graff's collecting interests focused on 20th century American, English and Irish literature,including first editions. In 1965, Graff became a member of the Grolier Cl...

Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948

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Henry Watson Kent served as the first professional librarian of the Grolier Club from 1903 to 1906 and originated its classification scheme. He continued to serve the Club during the following decades through its Library, Publications and House committees, and its Council. From 1906 until his retirement in 1940 Kent was Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. From the description of What I am pleased to call my education : typescript, 1948 / by Henry Watson Kent...

Riley, Elizabeth

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Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988

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Monroe Wheeler was born on February 13, 1899 in Evanston, Illinois. Following an early career as a publicity writer, he established Harrison of Paris, a fine press, which was in operation from 1930-1935. He began work with the Museum of Modern Art in 1938, soon becoming director of exhibitions and publications. Wheeler died on August 14, 1988. From the description of Monroe Wheeler papers, 1890-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85181624 From the description of Monroe Whee...

Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947

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Printer and lecturer. From the description of Letter of John Henry Nash, 1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454686 Biography John Henry Nash was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada on March 12, 1871. He left high school at the age of sixteen and became an apprentice in the shop of James Murray, one of the leading printers in Toronto. He worked as a compositor for several years in Toronto and for a few months in Denver...

Clelland, T. M. 1880-1964

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Schieffelin, George McKay, 1905-1988

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Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961

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American author who wrote about woodcuts and about the history of books. From the description of Letter, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480247 From the guide to the William Mills Ivins letter, 1925, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) William Mills Ivins, graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law School, Curator of Prints and Acting Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recipient of an honorary degree from Yale in 1946, author of How Prints Loo...

Goldschmidt, E. Ph. (Ernst Philip)

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Epithet: antiquarian bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000702.0x00012f ...

Livingston, Luther Samuel, 1864-1914

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Luther Samuel Livingston was the first curator of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harvard College Library. In 1912 Livingston published a set of "Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson, said to have never been published in the 1885 issue of "A Child's Garden of Verses." From the description of Letters sent to Luther Samuel Livingston, 1900-1912. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612840031 American bookseller and bibliographer. From the description o...

Altschul, Frank A. 1887-1981

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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...

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941

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Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) was a book designer and printer in New England. He was born an only child in an old and well-connected New England family, but his father's death in 1877 prevented Updike from pursuing higher education. Updike's Episcopalian background greatly influenced both his character and his later work as a printer, and his intellectual and cultural character was molded by his mother, an antiquary and scholar of French and English literature. Updike's first book-related j...

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947

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Frederic William Goudy was an American type designer. After a career in real estate, he began his career as a type designer at 40 and created over 120 type styles including University of California Oldstyle, exclusively for the University of California Press, and Goudy Old Style. Goudy founded the Village Press with Will H. Ransom and was the Art Director for the Lanston Monotype Machine Company from 1920 until his death in 1947. From the description of Frederic W. Goudy collection, ...

Grolier Club. Publications Committee.

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Founded in 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." It mounts three public exhibitions each year, publishes catalogs and other materials, and sponsors some lectures on the book arts. The Committee on Publications is one of the original committees of the Grolier Club and is charged with supervising, subject to the direction of the Council, all publicat...

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944

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Epithet: bibliographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000146 ...

Granniss, Ruth S. (Ruth Shepard), 1872-1954

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Librarian of the Grolier Club. From the description of Ruth S. Granniss correspondence, 1911-1914. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 470399492 ...

Bauer, Douglas F.

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Fürstenberg, Hans

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Winterich, John T., 1891-1970

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Brown class of 1912. Publisher and journalist. From the description of Papers, 1917-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122418631 Brown class of 1912. From the description of Papers, 1917-1966. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122631495 John T. Winterich, bibiophile, editor and writer, was born in Middletown, Conn. and received a B.A. from Brown University. While serving in World War I he became one of the first members of the editorial staff of ...