Jean Grolier de Servier, Viscount D'Aguisy. Some Account of his Life and of his Famous Library.

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Creator

William Loring Andrews

Title

Jean Grolier de Servier, Viscount D'Aguisy. Some Account of his Life and of his Famous Library.

Coverage

New York

Publisher

The De Vinne Press

Date

1892

Subject

Binding by Henry Stikeman (Stikeman & Co.) New York, ca.1897.

Description

Exhibited at the 1897 Scribner’s Exhibition of Fine Bindings, this is one of three known variants in pattern and colors of a “Grolieresque” pattern by Stikeman on this title. The others are in institutional collections.

…a book about Jean Grolier, written by a founder of the Grolier Club, published by the Grolier Club, in a Grolieresque binding, and with a provenance including five Grolier Club members, it is a feast of Grolier associations.

Relation

From the collection of Jeffrey Stikeman