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LC has copy 5 of deluxe edition. Prospectus and flyer for the exhibition laid in. Gift of the Grolier Club.

An exploration of a surprisingly combative period in the history of English grammar.   Heated arguments can break out over many things: slander, insults to a person‿s honor‿and, during one period in English history, grammar. In his new book detailing the controversies and fraught histories that accompanied efforts to regularize English grammar, Bryan A. Garner shows that the grammarians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were a surpris...

Published in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitman's coming of age as a poet through a unique assemblage of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts, many never before seen, from the Whitman Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, archives such as the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library's Berg Collection, private family collections, and forgotte...

Set in the types of William Caslon III. Design & typography by Jerry Kelly"--Colophon.

This catalogue of books, manuscripts, and works on paper was drawn from the international membership of the Grolier Club and accompanied an exhibition at the Club. Reflecting the breadth and quality of those members' varied collecting interests, the items encompass medieval manuscripts and early printed books, as well as contemporary literature, and rarities ranging from Old Master drawings and prints, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century post...

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Published to accompany the eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue explores in unprecedented breadth and depth the important role of print media in the development and spread of aesthetic ideals in applied art of all kinds, including architecture, interior design, and the book arts. The foreword and introduction by the author are followed by descriptions of 129 books, prints, and other objects displaying the exceptional artistry and ...

An illustrated look at two early-twentieth-century explorers whose work took them to deserts and mountain peaks, coinciding with the rise of modern photography along the way.   Vittorio Sella (1859‿1943) was the foremost mountaineering photographer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, producing widely celebrated images of K2 and other famed peaks. Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910‿2003) was a writer, photographer, and explorer, whose...

A gorgeously illustrated tour of several centuries of American magazine history.   The history of the American magazine is intricately entwined with the history of the nation itself. In the colonial eighteenth century, magazines were crucial outlets for revolutionary thought, with the first statement of American independence appearing in Thomas Paine‿s Pennsylvania Magazine in June 1776. In the eighteenth century, magazines were some of the fi...