Books & Catalogues

Generally, orders from non-members should be made through The University Press of New England (UPNE), a publishing consortium specializing in the arts and humanities, and the exclusive distributors of Grolier Club publications. A full list of Grolier Club titles in print is available on their website. Trade discounts are offered to booksellers.

Certain Grolier Club titles published jointly with other organizations, or published by others to accompany Grolier Club events, are available directly from the Club, as listed below. Issues of the Gazette of the Grolier Club are also available directly from the Club; for details visit the Gazette of the Grolier Club page. 

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Maev Brennan, Administrative Assistant
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (917) 628-2797   
Email mbrennan@grolierclub.org



JUST PUBLISHED:


For Jean Grolier & His Friends:
125 Years of Grolier Club Exhibitions & Publications, 1884-2009

George Ong & Eric Holzenberg.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2009

Planned in connection with the eponymous Grolier Club exhibition held December 9, 2008 through February 14, 2009, this volume explores the history of the Grolier Club through its ground-breaking program of exhibitions, and its long and distinguished series of publications. 


GROLIER FINE PRINTING : NEW SERIES, NO. 4

11 x 8; VII, [3], 460, [1] p. Over 200 illustrations in duotone and color, many full-page, and many tipped-in.  Typeset in a modified version of Monotype Dante, designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, Verona, Italy and printed in an edition of 279 copies on Hahnemühle Schiller paper, manufactured in Dassel, Germany. Letterpress printing by Bradley Hutchinson, Austin, Texas; offset printing by Thames Printing Company, Norwich, Connecticut; binding by Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis, Minnesota; design and production by Jerry Kelly, New York, New York. The deluxe edition was sold out before publication. The regular edition consists of 250 numbered copies bound in terra-cotta boards printed with an overall design of Club devices, plum cloth spine titled and with the Club device in gilt: $300. 

ORDER DIRECTLY FROM THE GROLIER CLUB. DUE TO THE SIZE AND WEIGHT OF THIS VOLUME, A SHIPPING CHARGE OF $15 WILL APPLY FOR SINGLE COPY ORDERS. FOR COMBINED SHIPPING CHARGES ON ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS OR OTHER GROLIER CLUB TITLES, OR FOR OVERSEAS SHIPPING CHARGES, OR FOR DISCOUNTS TO BOOKSELLERS, CONTACT MAEV BRENNAN, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, THE GROLIER CLUB, 47 EAST 60TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10022, TEL. (917) 628-2797, EMAIL BRENNAN@GROLIERCLUB.ORG.

A Monument More Durable Than Brass:
The Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson 
John Overholt, exhibition curator; Thomas A. Horrocks, ed. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2009.


10¼ x 7¾; vii, 127 p. numerous color illustrations, many full page. Accompanied the eponymous exhibition at the Grolier Club, December 9, 2009-February 6, 2010. Cloth, pictorial dust-jacket: $35.







In Pursuit of Knowledge: 600 Years of Leipzig University
Ulrich Johannes Schneider, ed. Leipzig: Leipzig University Library, 2009.


11½ x 8½; 206 p.; numerous color illustrations, many full page. Accompanied exhibitions at the Grolier Club (September 10-November 21, 2009) and the Houston Public Library (December 2009-January 2010). Pictorial boards: $40.

 








English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton
Valerie Hotchkiss & Fred C. Robinson. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, [2008].


10½ x 8¼; xiv, [2], 234, [4] p.; numerous color illustrations; Adobe Caslon Pro type; 70# Matte paper. More than 100 items from the rare book collections of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Elizabethan Club, Yale University, illustrating the history and development of printing in English, on display at the Grolier Club May 13-July 26, 2008. Pictorial wrappers: $35.





Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum
Stanley Ellis Cushing, David B. Dearinger. Boston, MA : The Boston Athenaeum, [2006].


12 x 9¼; 384 p.; 235 illustrations (164 in color). Originally published to accompany the Boston Athenaeum exhibition held February 13 - July 13, 2007. Later accompanied the Grolier Club public exhibition “Boston Collects: Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Boston Athenaeum,” held September 11-November 24, 2007. Dark brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt, Boston Athenaeum device stamped in blind on front over; pictorial dust-jacket: $65.


 



Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures
Anne C. Bromer, Julian I. Edison. Published in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

10½ x 9½; 215, [1] p.; 260 color illustrations; foreword by Stanley Marcus, preface by Eric Holzenberg, introduction by Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison. Published to accompany the public exhibition held May 15-July 28, 2007; red-bordered white pictorial boards, with color photographs of miniature books in a line extending across lower and upper covers, printed title on spine, with Abrams and Grolier Club devices; pictorial dust-jacket similar in design to the binding, all edges coppered, silk bookmark: $50.



 



The Western Pursuit of the American Dream:
Selections from the Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell.
[Natick, MA:] Historical Publications, 2004.

8½ x 11; x, 358 p.; 696 color illustrations; originally published to accompany an exhibition at the National Heritage Museum July 17, 2004-April 24, 2005; later accompanied the Grolier Club public exhibition held May 11-July 30, 2005; dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, pictorial dust jacket: $40. 


 



The Winterthur Library Revealed:
Five Centuries of Design & Inspiration
Neville Thompson with Bert Denker, E. Richard McKinstry, Lois Olcott Price, Jeanne Solensky.
[New Castle, DE:] Oak Knoll Press in Association with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, [2003]. 

11 x 8½; xi, [1], 100 p.; 98 color illustrations; published to accompany the public exhibition held at the Grolier Club December 9, 2003-February 7, 2004, and 1 subsequent venue; stiff red wrappers, with flaps: $25.