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Typography Tuesday

WHITTINGHAM INITIALS

The Whittinghams, Charles the Elder (1767-1840), who founded the Chiswick Press, and his nephew and successor Charles the Younger (1795–1876), were among the finest English printer/publishers of the 19th century, noted especially for the quality of typographic design and evenness of printing. Their firm was also the chief printer for bookseller/publisher William Pickering, whose own devotion to quality was exemplified in his use of Aldus Manutius's anchor & dolphin printer's mark, combined with the motto Aldi Discipulus Anglus (Aldus's English Disciple).

Many of the distinctive, wood-engraved initials the Whittinghams used were designed by Charles II himself along with his artist daughters Charlotte and Elizabeth, almost all of which were engraved by English book illustrator and wood engraver Mary Byfield (1795-1871). The Whittingham initials shown here are from the 1896 Grolier Club publication, The Charles Whittinghams Printers by Arthur Warren (1860-1924), which itself is printed by one of the finest 19th-century American printers, Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914), who printed the book on handmade paper in an edition of 185 copies. Our copy is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff, a Grolier Club member.

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Books On Books Collection - Tabula Rasa Press

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Beardsley 150

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 – 1898) Aubrey Beardsley sesquicentennial —a time to draw your attention to a few AB things to see— While Beardsley’s brief career was cut short aged 25 by his death from tuberculosis, he made an impact as a brilliant and daring innovator who often caused controversy by using satirical imagery to push gender and sexual boundaries. On view at the Grolier Club in…

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John Milton, (1644), Areopagitica; a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicenc'd printing, to the Parlament of England, With an Introduction by James Russell Lowell, The Grolier Club, New York, NY, 1890, [limited to 325 copies], Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., Clark, NJ, Cover design Peter Lo Ricco (1918 Cambridge University Press edition pdf here)

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Not-to-miss menu show

Later this month, beginning on April 26 and through July 29, the Grolier Club in New York will host an exhibition of menus from the collection of Henry Voigt entitled A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841-1941. Admission is free, and there is a 124-page illustrated catalog for $35. [above: back of catalog] Henry Voigt is also the author of a well-researched blog entitled The…

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Grolier Club Memorial of Edgar Allen Poe Edith Woodman Burroughs American

1909

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LIFE OF DANTE by Giovanni Boccaccio. (New York: Grolier Club, 1900) Translated by George R. Carpenter. Cover designed by Edward B. Edwards. One of 300 copies on Italian hand-made paper; slipcased.

The portrait of Dante used as the frontispiece is a reproduction of a drawing by George Varian from a photograph of the miniature in the Codex Riccardianus (1040).

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Jacqueline Kennedy at the Grolier Club in New York City on October 10th, 1967. The Grolier Club is the U.S’ oldest society for book lovers.

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com até 700 anos de idade, capas de livros que são pequenas obras de arte em exposição no the grolier club, new york city

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Marbled collage by John Coventry (early 1970s) from Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper @grolierclub by Mindell Dubansky @metlibrary @metmuseum ❤️‍🔥 Coventry, born Donato Coviello (b. 1943), marbled outdoors in Berkeley with his colleague Olaf, using a tank made from the inverted roof of a Volkswagen bus 🚌 #marbledpaper #grolierclub #watsonlibrary #mindelldubansky (at The Grolier Club of New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYaAkPuRSm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Typography Tuesday

Towards the end of his life, the notable German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) published Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt (Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler), commonly called the Four Books on Measurement in English, printed in Nuremberg by Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider in 1525. Specifically intended for practicing artists but equally useful for the applied arts, this was the first of Dürer's theoretical writings to be published. The treatise synthesized a number of classical and contemporary mathematical texts with the knowledge of geometry Dürer had accumulated over a lifetime of artistic practice, in order to train German artists in precision drawing and, by extension, precision thinking.

In Book III, Of the Just Shaping of Letters, Dürer details the geometric construction of the Latin alphabet, relying on Italian precedent. The last section of the book provides directions for the construction of Gothic majuscules and minuscules based on an entirely different modular system. In 1917, the Grolier Club of New York produced a limited-edition English translation, of which we only have an inexpensive Dover reprint. However we are showing pages from it because a 3D Concepts class is using it to construct 3D models based on Dürer’s instructions and we will be producing an exhibition of these explorations along with the book later this semester.

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Bookmark - "Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & The Book Arts Press"

Bookmark – “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & The Book Arts Press”

In late 2022, the New York’s Grolier Club and Charlottesville’s Rare Book School/The Book Arts Press joined to create this online exhibition. We have all been taught how to read books. But what can we learn by looking closely at their material forms? This exhibition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press, which teaches leading curators, librarians,…

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El códice fue expuesto por primera vez en el Grolier Club de Nueva York, de donde tomó su nombre.

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Grolier Club, New York

Bibliofili di tutto il mondo, divertitevi. La rilegatura fu una parte intrinseca del passaggio dal rotolo al codice, generalmente assegnato al litorale nordafricano nel III o IV secolo d.C. Questa nuova forma, il libro come lo conosciamo, con le sue raccolte di foglie, richiedeva qualcosa per trattenerle. riunioni e per proteggere il contenuto. La soluzione furono le coperture, probabilmente di…