Creator
Edwin T. Sabin
Title
Publishers’ Cloth Binding and Binding Die for The Pike's Peak Rush, or Terry in the New Gold Fields.
Coverage
(New York)
Publisher
( Thomas Y. Crowell Company)
Date
(1917)
Description
For almost two decades the Grolier Club has hosted week-long classes for the Rare Book School program based at the University of Virginia, making regular and intensive use of the Grolier Club Library as a “teaching collection” of books, prints, and realia illustrating aspects of the book as historical artifact, art object, collectible, and mass-produced commodity. The brass binding die shown here was purchased in November 2015; it took four more years of assiduous searching to find and acquire a fine copy of the book itself. Neither brass die nor publisher’s binding have any significant market value; but as tangible illustrations of an important aspect of early twentieth-century bookmaking, they are valuable teaching aids in the many classes and tours hosted by the Club.
Source
Purchased in 2015 and 2019 with Grolier Club Library Harper Funds.