Guide to the Montclair Art Museum Bookplate Collection, 1720-2010 (bulk 1890-1989)
Title:
Montclair Art Museum Bookplate Collection
OCLC No.:
1012943873
Dates:
1720-2010
Bulk Dates:
1890-1989
Extent:
15 boxes, 12 linear feet
Abstract:
Bookplates collected by the Montclair Art Museum, with accompanying card catalog and supplemental material.
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], Montclair Art Museum Bookplate Collection, 1720-2010 (bulk 1890-1989), 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 material was transferred to the Grolier Club from the Montclair Art Museum in April 2010.
Separated Materials:
This collection originally included The Cotter’s Saturday Night by Robert Burns, printed by The Bibliophile Society, with engravings by Arthur N. Macdonald; it was removed from the collection and cataloged separately.
Biographical/Historical Note:
The Montclair Art Museum is an American art museum founded in 1914 in Montclair, New Jersey. The Museum had a small number of bookplates in its collection from its early years, but the core of the collection came from 2,000 bookplates donated by Helen Francis Brockett in the 1920s, with other bookplate donations from Eulalia Van Lennep in 1927 and Mary Van Lennep in 1949. The Museum added to these gifts by collecting bookplates created for Montclair residents or by New Jersey artists. The bookplate collection was curated by Edith Anderson Rights, the librarian at the Museum’s LeBrun Library.
Scope and Content Note:
This collection includes approximately 7,173 bookplates, with some original prints and engraved metal plates. Additionally, there is a card catalog accompanying the collection, as well as supplemental indexes and research material.
Electronic indexes to this collection were created in the 1980s by Edith Anderson Rights on a Smith-Corona machine (possibly a PWP 7000LT). The indexes were migrated from the original 2.8" Smith-Corona disks to .rtf files by Scott Johnson of Pivar Computing Services, Inc. (Buffalo Grove, IL) in April 2016. For access to the .rtf files, please contact repository.
Access Points:
Names
Montclair Art Museum
Rights, Edith Anderson
Genres
Bookplates
Arrangement Note:
This collection is arranged in the following three series:
I. Bookplates
II. Card Catalog
III. Supplemental Material
Container List:
I. Bookplates
Box
|
Title
|
Date
|
1
|
Owners A-Ci, Colu-Cz
|
1720-1982
|
2
|
Owners Cl-Colt, Da-I
|
1720-1982
|
3
|
Owners J-O
|
1720-1982
|
4
|
Owners Pa-We
|
1720-1982
|
5
|
Owners Wh-Z, Special Subjects, Duplicates
|
1720-1982
|
6
|
Oversize, Unfiled, and Duplicate Bookplates, Original Prints
|
1720-1982
|
7
|
Engraved Plates
|
undated
|
II. Card Catalog
Box
|
Title
|
Date
|
8
|
Artist Ciphers, Owners A-Lom
|
Undated
|
9
|
Owners Lur-W, Artists A-Ch
|
Undated
|
10
|
Artists Ch-Z, Subjects A-Armorial
|
Undated
|
11
|
Subjects Armorial-Fl
|
Undated
|
12
|
Subjects Fl-P
|
Undated
|
13
|
Subjects P-Z
|
Undated
|
III. Supplemental Material
Box
|
Folder
|
Title
|
Date
|
14
|
1
|
Brewer Bookplate Collection Index
|
undated
|
14
|
3
|
Montclair Bookplate Collection Accession Inventory
|
1989
|
14
|
4
|
Edith Anderson Rights Articles and Research
|
1990-2010
|
15
|
|
Edith Anderson Rights Ledgers
|
undated
|