Grolier Club Bookplates

Past and Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Alexander Lawrence Ames, Mark Samuels Lasner

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A lavishly illustrated volume showcasing some of the most important bookplates produced in America from the collection of the Grolier Club.A miniature work of art, a bookplate may be viewed as a metaphorical portrait of a collector or library, using the designer’s personal graphic style. It also tells a story about the relationship between the artist and the patron. Illustrious collectors ranging from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Elkins Widener, J.P. Morgan and Paul Mellon come to life through bookplates by such celebrated figures as Dorothy Sturgis Harding, Eric Gill, Walter Crane, Rudolph Koch, and Rockwell Kent. Grolier Club Bookplates, Past & Present is a veritable who’s-who of both book collectors and the graphic artists who created their personalized ex-libris over the past 130 years, down to the present day. This carefully researched and amply annotated book not only provides a feast for a bibliophile’s eyes but also explores the meaning behind bookplates and their legacy as cultural indicators in book history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-10-20
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagGrolier Club of New York
ISBN9781605831046

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Alexander Lawrence Ames is director of outreach and engagement at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia. Mark Samuels Lasner is a senior research fellow at the University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press. William E. Butler is a John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. Molly E. Dotson is a graphic arts librarian at Princeton University Library and a former curator of the Yale Bookplate Collection.

Preface “Refinement, Taste, & Book Culture”: The Place of the Bookplate in Book History by Alexander Lawrence Ames Bookplate Collecting & Commissioning: An Introduction by William E. ButlerThe Curiosity of Bookplate Collecting: Irene D. Andrew’s Pace, Within and Beyond the Book by Molly E. DotsonBookplates of Past Grolier Club Members Bookplates of Current Grolier Club Members Notes Index of Owners, Collectors, Designers & Printers