William H. Helfand Fellowship

The Grolier Club Library William H. Helfand Fellowship


**The deadline for applications and letters of support for the 2024 William H. Helfand Fellowship is December 31, 2023. 

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).

This year, which marks the 20th anniversary of the program, the Club is pleased to re-launch its annual fellowship. Due to the COVID pandemic, the Grolier Club Library paused its Helfand fellowship program from 2020 through 2023. 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.  

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
 
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. There is no application form. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and a proposal, not to exceed 750 words, stating necessary length of residence, historical materials to be used, relevance of the Grolier Club Library collections to the project, a proposed budget, and two letters of recommendation. More information on the Library and its holdings can be found at www.grolierclub.org, under “Library” in the navigation menu.   The deadline for applications and letters of support is December 31, 2023, and announcement of awards will be made by mid-February, 2024. Research terms can take place any time in the calendar year of 2024, but please note that the Club is closed, and library access is not offered, during the month of August.  

Questions 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.

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