2004

Stephen Escar Smith (College Station, TX), Texas A&M University, researching Edwin Forrest and William Evans Burton, two 19th-century Shakespeare collectors.

Earle Havens (Boston, MA), Boston Public Library, researching “The Sale of the Century: Antiquaries, Bibliophiles, and Connoisseurs at the Harleian Sale of Coins and Medals, 1742.”

2005

Simon Loxley (Suffolk, England), graphic designer and  author of Type: The Secret History of Letters, researching the Club’s extensive archive of groundbreaking American typographer Frederic Warde, in preparation for a full-length published study of Warde’s life and work.

Barbara Kretzmann (Ithaca, NY), proprietor of the Cutleaf Bindery, researching the papers of binder Lansing Moran, exploring Moran’s lifelong quest to document twentieth century craft binding. The results will be presented to the Grolier Club, and to the centennial conference of the Guild of Book Workers in 2006.

2006

Shafquat Towheed (London, UK), Institute of English Studies, University of London, and The Open University. Using the Club’s collections of bookseller, book auction, and private library catalogues, Dr. Towheed is investigating the extent to which first editions of Edith Wharton’s works were considered—critically and commercially—worthy of inclusion in private collections, ca. 1900-1950.

Hans Eckert (Rüsselsheim, Germany), Universitätsbibliothek, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, exploring the Club’s collection of books and manuscripts relating to Bruce Rogers, in preparation for Germany’s very first exhibition on this noted designer and Grolier member. Mr. Eckert has been appointed curator of the show, to be mounted by the Gutenberg Museum in 2007.

2007

DANIELA MACCHIONE (Rome, Italy). Independent scholar. Dr. Macchione researched sale catalogues in the Grolier Club Library for descriptions of unique manuscript material relating to 19th-century Italian opera. These descriptions will be entered into OperaCat, a searchable database of such materials.  

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