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The Grolier Club, New York. 2004. 4to, 256pp., 200 illustrs., (150 in colour), orig. cloth-backed boards, d.w. Designed as the first comprehensive survey of the Club’s library, revealing the full range of treasures across the fields of bibliography, printing, bookbinding and book collecting. The work includes a history of the Club library which is followed by the catalogue of 200 entries ranging from illuminated manuscripts, incunabula and printed books from early presses such as the Estiennes etc., through to the work of the modern private press, manuscript and printed catalogues of the libraries of such figures as Thomas Phillipps, Madame de Pompadour and William Morris etc. Also includes books on typography, examples of printers’ medals and fine and historic bookbindings of all periods. |
