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1.18 Decree of Starre Chamber.jpg
Issued by the powerful and abusive Court of Star Chamber under King Charles I, this infamous decree forbade the manufacture, sale, or possession of types and presses without special dispensation, and by banning the unlicensed practice of the trades…

1.19 Decree of Starre Chamber GC ed.jpg
Issued by the powerful and abusive Court of Star Chamber under King Charles I, this infamous decree forbade the manufacture, sale, or possession of types and presses without special dispensation, and by banning the unlicensed practice of the trades…

1.35.2 Whitman broadside.jpg
Throughout his literary life, Walt Whitman (1819–1892) never forgot his roots in the printing trade and the years he spent as an apprentice with newspaper printers in Long Island and New York city. This broadside, which uses eight different type…

1.20 Francofordiense emporium.jpg
In the 1570s Henri Estienne (1531–1598), heir to the great printing tradition begun by his grandfather Henri (d. 1520), was in search of new markets for his books. A successful and profitable visit to Frankfurt caused him to write and publish this…

1.21 Maunsell.jpg
In response to the need for a general national catalogue, bibliographer and publisher Andrew Maunsell (d. 1595) compiled this first trade bibliography of English books. Maunsell’s intent was to issue a three-part catalogue, but only the first two,…

1.23 Catalogue vendible books.jpg
In 1658 bookseller William London, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, compiled the most important trade list of new books available in England since Maunsell’s 1595 catalogue. Appended to the Grolier Club copy is the ten-page supplement of new books issued…

1.25 Henry Knox catalogue.jpg
The earliest American bookseller catalogue in the Grolier Club library, and one of only two copies known; the other is at the Beinecke Library at Yale. It comprises about 600 author entries, some with descriptive comments, with a brief list of school…

1.26 Caylus.jpg
Colporteurs, or peddlers, played an important role in the distribution of books and pamphlets in rural areas of Europe from the advent of printing through the nineteenth century. Because they often dealt in salacious or seditious literature, these…

1.34 Payne and Foss.jpg
Among the Grolier Club Library’s extensive collection of nineteenth century dealer catalogues is this annotated “shop set” of catalogues issued by Payne & Foss, perhaps the most important bookselling establishment in pre-Victorian London. These…

1.36 Goldschmidt ledgers pile.jpg
The Grolier Club Library holds the archives of a number of important booksellers, but among the richest are the financial records of the firm of E. P. Goldschmidt. Ernest Philip Goldschmidt (1887–1954) was the quintessential antiquarian bookseller…
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