Daniel B. Fearing: Collection of Japanese and Chinese Imprints

 

RLIN ID No.

NYGG01-A69

 

Main Entry

Fearing, Daniel B. (Daniel Butler), 1859-1918, collector.

 

Title

Collection of Japanese and Chinese imprints, [ca. 1800-1900].

 

Physical Description

24 tittles in 44 v. (36 cm. and smaller)

6 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

 

Historical/Biographical Note

Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, Rhode Island was a member of the Grolier Club, a bibliophile society in York City, from 1887 until his death in 1918.

 

Scope and Contents Note

Collection of twenty-four titles in forty-volumes. Most of thee titles are in Japanese with a few in Chinese; most are heavily illustrated.

 

Subjects

Chinese imprints. 19th century. Collections.

Japanese imprints. 19th century. Collections.

 

Genres

Albums. Japan. 19th century.

 

Location

Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022-1098.

 

 

Collection Inventory

 

Note: Daniel Butler Fearing (1859-1918) was a non-resident member of the Grolier Club, a bibliophile society in New York City, from 1887 until his death in 1918. In 1907 he gave the club a collection of books, primarily in Japanese with a few in Chinese. The next year Fearing gave the club permission to sell duplicates and other volumes for the benefit of the organization. An unidentified book dealer selected volumes which, according to the minutes of the Council (governing body) of the club for October 6, 1908, “seemed most suitable to the Library.” The remainder was later sold.

 

Some of the volumes retained for the club have inserted notes, possibly supplied by this unidentified dealer. The following container list gives a general idea of the contents and highlights those titles that are accompanied by notes or that have a spine title in English or in the Roman alphabet. The notes have not been verified.

 

Box 1

Su Shi (“ca. 1300-1400”; possibly to be identified with Su Shih (1036-1101). Literary Works of Su Tung

Dao.  75 chuan in 6 cases [chuan are parts or short chapters] 

Cases 5 and 6 are in Box 2. This set has bookplate indicating it was a gift of Grolier Club member Oscar Morgner

 

Box 2

Cases 5 and 6 of above.

1 heavily illustrated folding book of illustrations.      

 

Box 3

Title on spine: Chinese Bronzes. Vols. 1-8 of a 14 volume set.

Bound in half leather.

 

Box 4

Volumes 9-14 of above.

Another title bound in half leather with spine title: Hiakunin Isshu/Mitusada [with inserted note: 1808]

 

Box 5

10 individual titles in 13 volumes.

1 volume has lettering on spine: Banshokui/Dzuko.

 

Box 6

9 individual titles.