Grolier Club

• Grolier Club. Catalogue of an exhibition of illuminated and painted manuscripts together with a few early printed books with illuminations. (1892) New York: The Grolier Club. A list of some of the most important books upon old manuscripts. Limited edition of 350 copies printed on Holland paper. Special Collections Stacks ND2803 .N7 G7.


• Grolier Club. Dramatic folios of the seventeenth century. (1903) New York. Exhibited at the Grolier club December 3rd to 12th, 1903. Special Collections Stacks PR 671 .G96 1903.


• Hart, Charles Henry. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Washington. (1904) New York. Limited edition of 425 copies printed on American hand-made paper. Special Collections Folio E312 .43. H32.


• Grolier Club. Catalogue of an exhibition of original and early editions of Italian books selected from a collection designed to illustrate the development of Italian literature. (1904) New York. Limited edition of 306 copies printed on hand-made paper. Special Collections Stacks Z2351 .G88.


• Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Quattrocentisteria: How Sandro Botticelli saw Simonetta in the spring. (1921) New York. From the author's Earthwork out of Tuscany. Limited edition of 300 copies printed by John Henry Nash. It is one of a series of six books done by eminent American printers at the invitation of the Grolier Club. Rare Folio PZ3 .H498 Qu.


• Stevenson, Robert Louis. New Arabia Nights: A lodging for the night. (1923) New York. Limited edition of 300 copies printed by Carl Purington Rollins. First published in 1881as part of the author's New Arabia nights. Special Collections Stacks PR5484 .L7.


• Drake, Joseph Rodman. The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems. (1923) New York. Limited edition of 300 copies printed by the Gilliss Press. It is one of a series of six books done by eminent American printers at the invitation of the Grolier Club. Rare Stacks PS1552 .C8.


• Dowson, Ernest Christopher. The Pierrot of the Minute. (1923) New York: Grolier Club. Printed by Bruce Rogers.  Limited edition of 300 copies printed on antique laid paper. Special Collections Stacks PR4613 .D5 P5.


• Birrell, Augustine. Three essays: I. Book-buying II. Book-binding III. The office of literature. (1924) New York. Limited edition of 300 copies printed at the Village Press. Bound in blue paperboards. Special Collections Folio PR4115 .O43


• Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron. “The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles.” (1924)New York. A play. Limited edition of 300 copies designed and printed by T. M. Cleland. One of a series of six books done by eminent American printers at the invitation of the Grolier Club. UMCP has copy numbered 95. Special Collections Folio PR6007 .U6 C64.


• Mores, Edward Rowe. A Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders and Foundries. (1924) New York. With an appendix by John Nichols and edited by D.B. [Daniel Berkely] Updike. Limited edition of 250 copies printed on Vidalon paper by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount press in Boston, MA. Bound in marbled cloth. Special Collections Stacks Z250 .M84.


• Tory, Geoffroy. Champ fleury. (1927) New York. Translated into English and annotated by George B. Ives. Limited edition of 390 copies printed on antique wove rag paper with 7 copies on large hand-made paper. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the printing house of William Edwin Rudge in Mount Vernon. Signed by Bruce Rogers. Special Collections Folio NK3615 .T62.


• Grolier Club. Catalogue of Work of the De Vinne Press exhibited at the Grolier Club on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Theodore Low De Vinne, December 25, 1828. (1929) New York. With addresses by Ira Hutchinson Brainerd and John Clyde Oswald. Limited edition of 300 copies printed from Garamond types on Kinkora paper. Supervised by J. W. Bothweill. The frontispiece and plate are accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .D524 G76.


• De Vinne, Theodore Low. “The Plantin-Moretus Museum, a Printer's Paradise.” (1929) San Francisco, California: Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Introduction to the essay written by Oscar Lewis. Limited edition of 425 copies with colored initials. Reprint of the essay that originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine in June of 1888. UMCP has copy numbered 407 and signed by E.[Edwin] Grabhorn. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .P71 D5.


• Isham, Ralph Heyward. The private papers of James Boswell, from Malahide castle, in the collection of Lt. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham: a catalogue by Frederick A. Pottle & Marion S. Pottle. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Limited edition of 415 copies printed by William Edwin Rudge in Mount Vernon, New York. Rare Folio PR3325 .A16.


• Morison, Stanley. Fra Luca de Pacioli of Borgo S. Sepolcro. (1933) New York. Limited edition of 390 copies printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Bound in decorated paper boards and in a protective box. UMCP has a copy signed by the author. R. D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Folio NK3615 .P34.


• Häbler, Konrad. Handbuch der Inkunabelkunde. English: The Study of Incunabula. (1933) New York. Translated from the German by Lucy Eugenia Osborne with a foreword by Alfred W. Pollard. Limited edition of 350 copies printed on antique wove rag paper. Translated from the German edition of 1925. UMCP has a copy numbered 255. Special Collections Stacks Z240 .H25413.


• American Institute of Graphic Arts. The Work of Bruce Rogers, Jack of All Trades: Master of One. (1939) New York: Oxford University Press. With an introduction by D. B. Updike, a letter from John T. McCutcheon and an address by Bruce Rogers. This publication is a catalogue of an exhibition arranged by the American institute of graphic arts and the Grolier Club of New York. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .R67 A5.


• Grolier Club. The Engraved & Typographic Work of Rudolf Ruzicka, an exhibition. (1948) New York. Limited edition of 500 copies printed and bound by The George Grady Press of New York. UMCP has a copy signed by Mr. Ruzicka. Special Collections Stacks NE1215 .R8 G7.


• Kent, Henry Watson. “What I am pleased to call my education.” (1949) New York. Edited by Lois Leighton Comings. Special Collection Stacks N8375 .K4 A3.


• Grolier Club. Fifty-five Books Printed before 1525 representing the works of England's first printers: an exhibition from the collection of Paul Mellon, January 17-March 3, 1968 . An edition of 1,650 copies designed and printed on Curtis Rag paper by the Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine. The reproduced photographs by Meriden Gravure Company. Special Collections Stacks Z151 .2 .G75.


• Austin, Gabriel. The Library of Jean Grolier: a preliminary catalogue. (1971) New York: Grolier Club. With an introductory study, “Jean Grolier and the Renaissance,” by Colin Eisler. R. D. Remley Collection. UMCP has two copies. Special Collections Folio Z997 .G876 A8.


• Bühler, Curt F. (Curt Ferdinand). Early Books and Manuscripts: Forty Years of Research. (1973) New York: Grolier Club. Limited edition of 510 copies printed by the Princeton University Press. Designed by P.J. Connwright. Illustrations reproduced by the Meriden Gravure Company. Special Collections Stacks Z1005 .B744.


• Ruzicka, Rudolph. Rudolph Ruzicka, Speaking Reminiscently: Informal Recollections. (1986) New York. Recorded and edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Limited edition of 600 copies designed by Philip Grushkin and printed and bound by Meriden-Stinehour. Special Collections Stacks NE1112 .R89 A2.


• Ray, Gordon Norton. Books as a Way of Life: Essays. (1988)New York: Grolier Club, Pierpont Morgan Library. Edited by G. Thomas Tanselle. Limited edition of 750 copies by Meriden-Stinehour Press. Special Collections Stacks Z987 .R3.


• Morris, William. “A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press.” (1996) New York: published by the Grolier Club for the William Morris Society. With a short description of the press by S.C. Cockerell, and an annotated list of the books printed thereat. Enlarged and corrected version, edited by William S. Peterson. A new edition of the work first published by the Kelmscott Press in 1898. Limited edition of 750 copies printed from Adobe Caslon and Big Caslon types with Monotype Arabesque ornaments. Designed by William S. Peterson and printed by The Stinehour Press. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .M87 M83.


• Hutner, Martin and Jerry Kelly. A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books from 1900-1999. (1999) New York. An edition of 1,000 copies printed from Dante types by the Stinehour Press. 250 copies case bound, and fifty copies contain some original leaves from the books. Special Collections Folio Z1033 .F5 H87.


• Hutner, Martin. A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. (2004) Danbury, CN: Grolier Club; Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, Publisher. Printed from Dante types on Cougar Opaque natural paper. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Special Collections Folio Z1033 .F5 H87.

Catalogues of Exhibits held by the Grolier Club

• Whitehall, Walter Muir. A Boston Athenaeum Miscellany: Catalogue of an exhibition in honor of the visit of the Grolier Club on February 11, 1950. (1950) Robert Charles Billings Fund publications. Catalogue series, number 1. Text printed by The Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine. Collotype plates printed by Meriden Gravure Company in Meriden, Connecticut. R. D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks Z881 .B738.


• Bühler, Curt F. (Curt Ferdinand). Fifteenth Century Books and the Twentieth Century. (1952) New York. An edition of 1,000 copies printed by Peter Beilenson from Weiss type. Collotypes by Meridan Grauvre. An address by Curt Bühler, and a catalogue of an exhibition of fifteenth century books held at the Grolier Club, April 15-June 1, 1952. R.D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks Z240 .A1 B83.


• The Grolier Club. An Exhibition Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth anniversary of the Grolier Club. (1959) New York. With addresses by C. Walter Barrett and Alexander Davidson, Jr. Delivered at the opening of the exhibition on March 7, 1959. An edition of 1,000 copies printed and designed by Peter Beilenson in Mount Vernon, New York. UMCP has two copies. Special Collections Stacks Z1008 .G996 A36.


• Strouse, Norman H. “The Lengthened Shadow.” (1960) New York: Philip C. Duschness. An address by Norman H. Strouse at an opening of an exhibition of modern fine printing at the Grolier Club, April 19, 1960. Special Collections Stacks Z231.5.P7 S8.


• Horblit, Harrison D. One Hundred Books Famous in Science: based on an Exhibition held at the Grolier Club. (1964)New York. Special Collections Folio Z7401 .H6.


• John Carter Brown Library. A Collection's Progress: two retrospective exhibitions. (1968) Providence, R.I: Associates of the John Carter Brown Library. Catalogue of two exhibitions: one at the Grolier Club, New York on April 16-June 1, 1968; the other at the library in Providence, April 5-Sept. 1, 1968. Printed by the Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine. Illlustrations printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Special Collections Stacks E18 .J6 1968.


• University of Houston-Libraries. “American publishers' posters & books, 1894-98: an exhibition on the occasion of the Grolier Club visit to the University of Houston Library, May 7-8, 1976. Houston: University of Houston Library, 1976. Catalogue of an exhibition of books and posters in the University of Houston Library. Preface signed: Edward G. Holley. Introduction signed: Marian M. Orgain. Special Collections Folio NC1805 .H6.


• Taylor, W. Thomas. Printers' Choice: a Selection of American press books, 1968-1978 . (1983) Austin: W.T. Taylor. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club , New York, December 19-1978-February 3, 1979 with a selection of books and press histories by Ruth E. Fine and William Matheson; bibliographic descriptions and notes by W. Thomas Taylor. Special Collections Folio Z231 .5 .P7 T39.


• Breslauer, Bernard H. and Roland Folter. Bibliography, its history and development: catalogue of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club from April 21 to June 6, 1981, to mark the completion of the National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints. (1984) New York. Special Collections Stacks Z1002 .B5966.


• Samuels Lasner, Mark. William Morris: the Collector as Creator. (1996) New York. Designed by Mark Samuels Lasner. A hand-list of a centenary exhibition held at the Grolier Club of New York, 11 December 1996 to 15 February 1997. Limited edition of 500 copies printed by the Stinehour Press. Designed by Mark Lasner Samuels. Special Collections StacksPR5083 .S26.


• Reese, William S. Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: An Exhibition. (1999) New York. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Grolier Club May 4-July 31, 1999. Special Collections Folio NE507 .R4.


• Lowenherz, David H. Letters, Manuscripts, and Inscribed Books by Robert Frost from the collection of David H. Lowenherz. (1999) New York. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, January 27-March 26, 1999. Three illustrations are on separate leaves and secured in a pocket. Limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies printed from Bulmer and Baskerville types on Mohawk Superfine paper. Includes two prints made especially for this edition by Leonard Baskin and Antonio Frasconi and Thomas W. Nason's fence-post engraving. Designed by Jerry Kelly and David H. Lowenherz. UMCP has copy numbered 179 and signed by Lowenherz. Special Collections Stacks PS3511 .R94 Z765.

Resources about the Grolier Club

• Knopf, Alfred A. “Some random recollections: an informal talk made at the Grolier Club, New York, 21 October 1948.” (1949) New York: The Typophiles. Typophile Chap Books no. 22. An edition of 1,250 copies printed from Arcadia type, a linotype face designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Printed and bound by the Plimpton Press. Special Collections Stacks Z473 .K72 A3.


• Winterich, John Tracy. The Grolier Club, 1884-1950: an Informal History. (1950) New York. An edition of 1,250 copies. Bound in gray-green paper boards. Designed and printed by The Press of A. Colish of New York. R.D. Remley Collection. Special Collection Stacks Z1008 .G886 W5.


• Grolier Club. Grolier 75: a Biographical Retrospective to Celebrate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Grolier Club in New York. (1959) New York. An edition of 1,000 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Issued in a slipcase. Special Collections Folio Z1008 .G886a.


• Austin, Gariel, ed. The Grolier Club iter Italicum. (1963) New York. An edition of 750 copies printed on Curtis Ragpaper by the Stinehour Press. Illustrations printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Special Collections Stacks Z1008 .G886 A38.


• Grolier Club. The Grolier Club, 1884-1984: its library, exhibitions & publications. (1984) New York. Limited edition of 600 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine paper. Printed and bound in Dutch cloth by the Stinehour Press. Designed by Stephen Harvard who also designed by the hand-lettered title page and initial letters. Plates printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Special Collections Folio Z1008.G886 G76.

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