Guide to the Double Crown Club Pamphlets and Ephemera
Title:
Double Crown Club Pamphlets and Ephemera
OCLC/RLIN No. (Unique ID):
NYGG00-B847
Dates: 1924-1965
Extent:
3 boxes; 1.6 linear feet
Abstract:
Pamphlets and ephemera, especially menus, of the Double Crown Club of London collected by Holbrook Jackson.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use. Copyright restrictions may apply; please contact repository for requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce the materials.
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Double Crown Club Pamphlets and Ephemera, 1924-1965, The Grolier Club of New York.
About the Finding Aid:
This finding aid was prepared by Allison Hughes in Microsoft Word at the Grolier Club, October 2017.
Provenance:
This collection was a gift of Holbrook Jackson.
Biographical/Historical Note:
The Double Crown Club is a dining club and society of printers, publishers, book designers, and illustrators in London that was founded in the 1924. Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) was the first president of the Club.
Scope and Content Note:
Printed pamphlets and ephemera, including: Menus (1924-1948)-- Rules, 1924-1925 (1925)-- Povídka o papouškovi [by] Rabindanáth Thákur [copy 105] (1925)-- Illustrations to a paper read to the Double Crown Club on prelims (1927)-- The printing of poetry by Walter de la Mare (1927)-- The rules and roll of members, 1928-29 (1929)-- Seven sciagraphical poems [by] W.J. Turner (1929)-- Rudolf Koch (1930)-- A view of the Quincy Homestead, Quincy, Massachusetts ... D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press (Boston, 1930)-- Exhibits illustrative of typefounding (1930)-- A view of some old gardens, Beacon Hill, Boston ... D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press (Boston, 1931) -- Book of stamps and menu ... for the thirty-seventh dinner ... (1933)-- The illuminated manuscripts of William Morris [by] Graily Hewitt (1934)-- Rules and roll of members (1935)-- The early history of the Double Crown Club by Holbrook Jackson (1935)-- Goethe über England und die Englische Literatur (1935?)-- Book-production notes (1935)-- A printer's epitaph written by himself, 1727 [by Benjamin Franklin] (1935)-- Features for two millions [by] John Rayner (1937)-- A view of the summer house ... D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press (Boston, 1939)-- Double Crown Club [Rules and roll of members] (1944)-- Tribute to Holbrook Jackson (1946)-- Type design in relation to language and to the art of the punch cutter (New York, 1946)-- Devices of the Double Crown Club (1947)-- Twelve by eight [by] John Mason (1958).
There is also a red leather portfolio with vellum sheets inlaid proclaiming a “Coming of Age Celebration” celebrating Holbook Jackson, dated September 28, 1946.
Access Points:
Names
Double Crown Club.
Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948.
Subjects
Book collectors—Societies—England.
Genres
Ephemera.
Menus.
Arrangement Note:
Items in this collection are arranged chronologically.
Container List:
Box
|
Fol.
|
Title
|
Date
|
1
|
1
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1924
|
1
|
2
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1925
|
1
|
3
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1926
|
1
|
4
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1927
|
1
|
5
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1928
|
1
|
6
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1929
|
1
|
7
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1930
|
1
|
8
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1931
|
1
|
9
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1932
|
1
|
10
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1933
|
1
|
11
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1934
|
1
|
12
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1935
|
1
|
13
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1936
|
2
|
1
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1937
|
2
|
2
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1938
|
2
|
3
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1939
|
2
|
4
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1940
|
2
|
5
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1942
|
2
|
6
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1944
|
2
|
7
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1945
|
2
|
8
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1946
|
2
|
9
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1947
|
2
|
10
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1958
|
2
|
11
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
1965
|
2
|
12
|
Pamphlets and Ephemera
|
undated
|
3
|
1
|
“Coming of Age Celebration”
|
1946
|