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.