Creator
Brick Row Book Shop
Title
Business Records
Date
1913-2015
Description
This collection of business papers, including customer correspondence; financial records and shop-copies of catalogues, tells the story of the Brick Row Book Shop, one of the oldest antiquarian book firms in the United States. Founded in 1915 by Grolier Club member Edmond Byrne Hackett, the shop was named after a famous block of buildings on the Yale campus, on the site of what is now Yale's Stirling Library. The firm was based primarily in New York City until Hackett's death in 1953, after which, under Hackett's successor, Franklin Gilliam, it moved successively to Austin, TX, and then in 1971 to San Francisco, CA. In 1983 Gilliam sold the Brick Row to its current owner, Grolier member John Crichton, who has maintained the shop’s traditional emphasis on English & American literature, Americana and antiquarian bibliography.
Source
Gift of Mary Cooper Gilliam and John Crichton.