The Gazette of the Grolier Club

Issue no. 1 of The Gazette of the Grolier Club was launched in May of 1921, with a mandate to publish “notices of exhibitions, publications, meetings, the Library collections and similar items; statements about scarce or unknown editions, or states of prints belonging to collectors; short bibliographies of this or that; accounts of printers, publishers, engravers, illustrators and other book-makers; bibliophilic, bibliomaniac and bibliopegic notes, poems, and so on,” a mission the journal continues to pursue today.

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New Series Number 57  (2006)
Editor: Jane Rodgers Siegel
Assistant Editor: Declan Kiely

Steven Escar Smith, “’Like Loose Leaves from an Unclasped Binding’: William Evans Burton and the Largest Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Collection in America Not to Survive,” 5–23 | Mildred Abraham, “Ruth Shepard Granniss (1872–1954), Grolier Librarian, Scholar, & Lecturer: A Truly Remarkable Woman,” 24–49 | David H. Stam, “’Innocents on the Ice’: The Evolution of an Exhibition,” 50–60 | Barbara E. Kretzmann, “Exceptional Bindings: The Grolier Club’s Moran Collection,” 61–90 (illus.) | Report on the Iter Britannicum II, [Part 1], May 31 – June 12, 2005, 91–103: Carolyn L. Smith, “Jane Austen House and Library,” 92–93 — Carolyn L. Smith, “St. John’s College, Oxford,” 93–94 — “The University of Oxford Botanic Garden,” 94–95 — E. Ward Smith, “The Wormsley Library,” 95–97 — J. Thomas Touchton, “The Rothschild Archive,” 97–100 — Natalie Blaney, “Dr. Johnson’s House,” 100–101 — Stanley D. Scott, “St. Bride Foundation Institute,” 101–102 — Carolyn L. Smith, “The Home of Charles Sebag Montefiore,” 102–103.

New Series Number 56 (2005)
Editor:  Jane Rodgers Siegel

Irene Tichenor, “A DeVinne Walking Tour of The Grolier Club,” 4–15 (photos & illus.) | Roger E. Stoddard, “How I Read Edmond Jabès / Wie ich Edmond Jabès lese / Comme je lis Edmond Jabès: The Bibliographer’s Answer,” 16–33 (illus.) | Jerry Kelly, “Of Making Many Books: Book Design Yesterday and Today,” 34–47 (illus.) | Declan Kiely, “Graham Greene’s Poetry Reviews for The Oxford Magazine,” 48–67 | William H. Helfand, “The Drug Trade and the Book Trade,” 68–82 (illus.) | Laurence Libin, “Eric Selch,” 83–86.

 

New Series Number 55 (2004)
Editor: Carol Z. Rothkopf

Carolyn L. Smith, “Mary Hyde Eccles: A Tribute, October 2, 2003,” 5–7 | William Zachs, “’Dear Mary’:  An Address for the Memorial Service of Mary Hyde Eccles, October 2, 2003,” 8–11 | Colin Franklin, “What Do You Specialize in?: A Few Recollections from the Caribbean,” 12–28 | Jack W. C. Hagstrom, “Robert Frost and Other Friends,” 29–34 | Richard Wendorf, “Living with Piranesi,” 35–51 (illus.) | Robert H. Jackson, “To the Ends of the Earth: Voyaging with Rockwell Kent,” 52–62 (illus.).

New Series Number 54 (2003)
Editor: Mark Samuels Lasner

Richard J. Kuhta, “’Thys Boke Is Myne’: Further Reflections on the Subject of Provenance,” 5–58 | Ronald K. Smeltzer, Collecting Modern Physics, 59–80 (illus.) | Linda Lear, “Beatrix Potter, Naturalist: A Biographer’s Perspective,” 81–87 | Edward Maggs, “Only the Brave Deserve the Fair: An Inquiry into the Ecology of the Modern Book Fair,” 88–96 | E. Ward Smith, “An Emily Dickinson Poetry Reading at the Grolier,” 97–102 | J. Robert Wright, “At the Grolier Commemoration of 9/11,” 103–107.

 


New Series Number 53 (2002)      
Editors: Mark Samuels Lasner & Eric Holzenberg

Arthur L. Schwarz, “Sydney Cockerell, Harold Peirce, and Their World of Books,” 5–37 (photos) | Judith Kredel Brown, “Fritz Kredel,” 38–48 (illus.) | Allen G. Debus, “Paracelsus and the Chemical Revolution in Sixteenth-Century Medicine,” 49–70 (illus.).