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Publications

Since its founding in 1884 the Grolier Club has published over 200 books and exhibition catalogues --some of them now the standard references in their fields--on such subjects as photography, William Blake, Mayan writing, Albrecht Dürer's alphabet book, and the well-known "Grolier hundred" selections in literature, science, and medicine. Many of the publications have been printed and designed by the leading book artists and typographers of the past -- and present -- including Theodore Low De Vinne, D. B. Updike, Bruce Rogers, Stanley Morison, Joseph Blumenthal, the Mardersteigs, and Jerry Kelly.
 

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English in Print From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton Valerie Hotchkiss & Fred C. Robinson. 10½ x 8½. xiv, 234 pp., many color illustrations. 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. Published by the University of Illinois Press.  Hardcover in pictorial dustjacket: $65 Pictorial wrappers: $35

 

Benjamin Franklin Writer & Printer James N. Green & Peter Stallybrass. 8½ x 11, 192 pp., many color and black & white illustrations. Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Grolier Club, December 11, 2007-February 2, 2008. New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press & Library Company of Philadelphia & The British Library 2006. Hardcover in pictorial dustjacket: $50.

 

Acquired Tastes 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum Stanley Cushing and David B. Dearinger. 9½ x 12½. 388 pp., many color illustrations. More than 100 items representing the holdings of the Boston Athenaeum are grouped by form — books and maps, paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs, and decorative arts and artifacts — and pictured, each accompanied by a detailed history. Accompanies the exhibition Boston Collects: Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Boston Athenaeum, curated by Stanley Cushing & David Dearinger, on show at the Grolier Club September 13-November 24, 2007. Published by the Boston Athenaeum. (ISBN-10: 0934552738)   Hardcover in pictorial dustjacket: $65

 

Miniature Books 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison. 9¾ x 10¾. 215 pp. 260 color illustrations. Foreword by Stanley Marcus, preface by Eric Holzenberg, introduction by Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison, followed by a comprehensive survey of the  art and history of miniature books (none by definition taller than three inches). The  hundreds of examples are lavishly illustrated, most  at their actual size. Accompanies  the exhibition "Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures" on view at the Grolier Club, May 15-July 28, 2007. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in  association with the Grolier Club. (ISBN: 0-8109-9299-X) Hardcover in pictorial dustjacket: $40  Deluxe limited edition, hardcover in slipcase, with an additional copy of the book in miniature: $150

 

 

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The Western Pursuit of the American Dream. Selections from the Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell. 11 x 8½, 372 pp. 696 color illustrations. The westward migration of the American people has often been associated with the quest for freedom, happiness, riches, and self-fulfilment: the American Dream. In The Western Pursuit of the American Dream, Kenneth W. Rendell draws on his extensive collection to tell the story of the West through surviving books, manuscripts, and artifacts. Accompanies an exhibition at the Grolier Club, on view May 11-July 30, 2005. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press (ISBN: 0-8061-9954-7). Cloth, with pictorial dust jacket: $40.

 

A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books. 9 x 12, 224 pp., 100 color illustrations. Rare and beautiful woodcut illustrated books acquired by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the sale of the collection of C. W. Dyson Perrins, and now in the Library of Congress. Edited by Daniel De Simone, with essays by Lilian Armstrong, Daniela Laube, and Paul Needham. Includes full descriptions of the 75 15th- and 16th-century books on show at the Grolier Club, December 8, 2004-February 5, 2005. Cloth: $50. Wrappers: $35 (ISBN 0-8076-1536-6).

 

Bound To Be The Best: The Club Bindery. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club. By Thomas G. Boss, with an Essay by Martin Antonetti. Boston: Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 2004. 9¼ x 12¼, 140 pp., 75 illustrations, 29 in color (4 tipped-in). A comprehensive history of the Club Bindery and its later incarnations is followed by detailed descriptions of the bindings, brass plate dies, tools, sketches, photographs, and binding furniture on show at the Grolier Club, September 14-November 30, 2004. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed in an edition of 500 copies on Monadnock Dulcet paper. Full cloth, gilt: 195.00

 

The Winterthur Library Revealed: Five Centuries of Design & Inspiration. 9½ x 11, 112 pp., 100 color illustrations. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club, December 9, 2003-February 7, 2004. Includes essays on the founding of the Winterthur Library and all aspects of its collections, as well as entries for the items on show, from printed patterns of the 16th century to colonial revival design drawings of the 20th, in books, drawings, and ephemera. Published by Winterthur and Oak Knoll Press, 2003. Cloth: $45.00. Wrappers: $24.95.

 

 

An Odyssey in Print. 8 x 10, 182 pp., 20 black & white and 150 color illustrations. By Mary Augusta Thomas, Assistant Director of the Smithsonian Libraries and exhibition curator, with a a foreword by Nancy E. Gwinn, Director of the Smithsonian Libraries, and essays by Michael Dirda, Senior Editor for The Washington Post Book World, and Storrs Olson, Curator and Senior Zoologist at the National Museum of Natural History. A lavishly illustrated record of books, manuscripts and other objects from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, on show at the Grolier Club in May-July, 2001 under the title Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition. Full cloth, with pictorial dustjacket: $30 (ISBN 1-58834-036-8)

 

Voyages: A Smithsonian Institution Libraries Exhibition. 9 x 5¾, 63 pp., 50 illustrations. An illustrated checklist of the exhibition on show at the Grolier Club in May-July, 2001, which groups the books, manuscripts , prints, and other objects in the show under five headings: "Journeys of the Mind," "Journeys Over Land and Sea," "Journeys in the Air," and "Journeys of the Imagination." Wrappers: $15.

 

A Mirror of theWorld: Three Thousand Years of Books & Manuscripts [English language summary]. 5¾ x 8¼, 101 pp., 14 color illustrations. Vol. 3 of the 3-volume catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Grolier Club, February 20 - April 28, 2001. Although the two German-language volumes are now sold out, this English-language summary volume stands alone: it contains the complete text of the exhibition label copy, including descriptions of items exhibited only at the Grolier Club, and not found in the 2 German volumes. The illustrations include a large fold-out color-plate of the annotated proof of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Wrappers: $15.

 

Mathilde and Judith Kredel Brown. Fritz Kredel 1900-1973 . 8 x 10, 140 pp., 80 color illustrations. A catalogue of the exhibition held at the Grolier Club, September 20 - November 18, 2000. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Wrappers: $35.

 

 

Barker, Nicolas, et al. Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses. 9 x 12, 179 pp., 122 illustrations in color and black & white, many full-page. With a preface by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, and an introductory essay by Simon Jervis. Two essays on the English country house library, followed by an illustrated catalogue of 122 manuscripts and rare printed books exhibited at the Grolier Club, February 24-April 17, 1999. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed at the Stinehour Press. Limited to 1000 copies. Pictorial wraps. (ISBN 0-910672-25-3)

 

A Treasure House of Books: The Library of Duke August of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel. 8½ x 11, 270 pp., 200 illustrations in color and black & white, many full-page. Twelve essays on Duke August and his library, followed by an illustrated catalogue of the 55 illuminated manuscripts and rare printed books in the exhibition held at the Grolier Club, December 8, 1998-February 6, 1999. Pictorial wrappers.