The 2024 Grolier Club Library William H. Helfand Fellowship
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 Grolier Club Library William H. Helfand Fellowship Award.
Eva Dema, PhD Candidate, Cambridge University
Project: ‘An American Offer’: The Acquisition of British Literary Manuscripts during the Transatlantic Manuscript Trade (1890-1929)
The 2024 Grolier Club Library William H. Helfand Fellowship
Each year, the Grolier Club
Library offers a fellowship in the art and
history of the book, named in honor of late Grolier Club benefactor and former
president William H. Helfand (1926-2018). Awards of up to
$3,000 are available for research in the Library's areas of strength, with
emphasis on the private collecting of books and prints, antiquarian
bookselling, and the book and graphic arts. Fellowship awards may be used to
pay for travel, housing, and other expenses. A research stay of two weeks is
desired, and Helfand Fellows are expected to present the results of their
research in a public lecture at the Grolier Club, or in an article submitted to
the Club's journal, The Gazette of the Grolier Club.
Members of the
Grolier Club are not eligible, nor are students enrolled in undergraduate
degree programs, but all other interested persons are encouraged to apply. The call for applications usually goes out toward the end of the calendar year, and announcement of awards is usually made by February of the following year.
Questions about the fellowship or about Grolier Club library collections may be addressed to Grolier Club Librarian Jamie Cumby:
[email protected].
Past Fellows
2004
Earle Havens. “The
Sale of the Century: Antiquaries, Bibliophiles, and Connoisseurs at the
Harleian Sale of Coins and Medals, 1742.”
Stephen Escar Smith. "Research on the private library of William Evans Burton."
2005
Simon Loxley. The life and work of the printer Frederick Warde.
Barbara Kretzmann. Ms. Lansing Moran's lifelong quest to document twentieth-century craft binding.
2006
Shafquat Towheed. The status of Edith Wharton's works in the antiquarian book market, 1900-1950.
Hans Eckhert. "Bruce Rogers: 1870-1957, book designer."
2007
Daniela Macchione. "OperaCat: Opera for sale."
2008
Mark Towsey. "'The Historical Age': Audiences for History in Britain, 1750-1835."
Douglas Tallack. Visual
Commissions: New York City, 1865-1917.
2009
Arnold Conway Hunt. “English Dealers in the Foreign Trade.”
2010
Thierry Rigogne. "The Creation of the French Café, from the Introduction of Coffee into France to the French Revolution (1640-1800)."
2011
Sandro Jung. The Grolier Club’s run of William Peacock’s Polite Repository, or, Pocket Companion (Sir Thomas Phillipps’s almanacs).
Marianne Van
Remoortel. “The Rossettis at auction: A Survey of Items Relating to Dante
Gabriel and Christina Rossetti in Auction Catalogues, 1895-1940.”
2012
Emiko Hastings. The
history of early American women book collectors, rare book librarians, and
antiquarian booksellers.
Brooke
Palmieri. The book trade in the United States and United Kingdom from the 1930s
to the Hague Convention of 1954.
2013
Anthony S.G.
Edwards. The sale of Middle English manuscripts and early printed books in the twentieth century.
Scott Gwara. "The
Nineteenth-Century American Trade in Medieval Books: Auction Catalogues,
Antiquarian Lists, and Private Inventories."
2014
No Fellows were taken this year due to construction projects.
2015
Toby N. Burrows. “Reconstructing the Phillipps Collection.”
Philip Martyn Oldefield. British Armorial Bindings Project.
2016
Jason Rovito. “Desiderata Machine: On the Significance of AB Bookman’s Weekly for a History of ‘information wanting’.”
Paolo Sachet. “Aldine Books and the British Antiquarian Trade, Pre-1900.”
2017
Lise Jaillant. Crosby Gaige, Frederic Warde, and Random House.
Graeme Kemp.
Books at Auction: The Sale of Books by Catalogue in England
and Scotland (1676-1707).
2018
No
Fellows were taken this year due to renovations.
2019
Helwi Blom. Middlebrow Enlightenment Disseminating Ideas,
Authors and Texts in Europe (MEDIATE) and Bibliography of individually-owned Book and Library Inventories Online (BIBLIO).
Kristen Doyle
Highland. “In the Bookstore: Literary Commerce and Culture in Antebellum New
York City.”
Yelda Nasifoglu.
Catalogue of Catalogues: A
Database of British Book Catalogues, in Print and Manuscript, up to 1700.
2020
Joseph Black – A Complete Census with Ownership Histories of
all 280 surviving copies of books by Elizabethan playwright, Thomas Nashe (d.
1600).
Alvan Bregman -- Updated and expanded edition of Stephen
Parks’s The Luttrell File: Narcissus Luttrell’s Dates on Contemporary
Pamphlets, 1678-1830 (1999).
Rachel Jacobs -- The identification of books and
works on paper purchased by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild from the records of
Librairie Damascène Morgand (Edouard Rahir et cie, successeur).
2021-2023
No Fellows were taken in these years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.