Grolier Club bibliophile trips, 1948-

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Grolier Club bibliophile trips, 1948-

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The records consist primarily of incoming and outgoing correspondence from various Grolier Club members concerning travel logistics and venues. Also represented are travel diaries, itineraries and photographs relating to the bibliophile journeys in England and France (1959); California (1961); Italy (1962); Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and Holland (1967); Germany and Switzerland (1969); Texas (1976); and Ireland (1997). The Grolier Club also hosted several special events to reciprocate the generosity shown to them by the institutions they had visited. Materials include correspondence, itineraries, and invitations. Included are materials donated by Grolier Club members including several notebooks with postcards and humorous annotations created by Herman W. Liebert; David P. Wheatland's compilation of souvenir items; J.M. Crawford, Jr.'s material on Italy (1962); and printed ephemera collected by William Salloch. Non-Grolier Club material includes exhibition catalogs, invitations and special exhibition announcements from collections the Grolier Club visited as well as hotel brochures, travel tags and newspaper clippings

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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...

Edwards, George, 1959-

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George Edwards lived in Donnington, Salop (Shropshire), England (in the Telford conurbation to the east in North Shropshire). From the description of George Edwards mathematics notebook, 1822. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676969511 Epithet: of Add MS 28050 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000817.0x000006 Epithet: Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians ...

Nikirk, Robert

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Nikirk : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308358 Founded in 1884 by a group of seven New York City Book collectors, the Grolier Club has employed librarians for over a century, and in the last few decades they have also assumed the duties of director. Robert Nikirk had a background in art historical studies and employment in a book auction house when he was app...

John M. Crawford, Jr.

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Donald Frizell Hyde, a celebrated collector of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on 17 April 1909. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1929 and from Harvard Law School in 1932. In 1962 he received the honorary degree of LittD from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and was appointed an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Hyde took a central part in publications and/or societies devoted to Shakespeare, Johnson, Boswell, Keats, and Shelley; in th...

Salloch, William

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Wheatland, David P.

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Wheatland earned his Harvard SB in 1922. From the description of Notes in History of Science 1, 1940-1941. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512347 ...

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...

Liebert, Herman W.

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Herman Wardwell ("Fritz") Liebert (1911-1994), Yale Class of 1933, was a bibliophile, literary scholar and collector, author of several works about Samuel Johnson, and the first Librarian of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. From the description of Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection, 1604-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79259317 From the description of Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection, 1604-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148485 ...

Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966

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Epithet: first husband of Mary Viscountess Eccles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000188 ...