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 designers 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 whos-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 bibliophiles eyes but also explores the meaning behind bookplates and their legacy as cultural indicators in book history.
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"This book is a welcome addition. . . handsomely produced, and one which should be found on any shelves where bookplate research is supported." * Book Collector *
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. Butler
The Curiosity of Bookplate Collecting: Irene D. Andrews Pace, Within and
Beyond the Book by Molly E. Dotson
Bookplates of Past Grolier Club Members
Bookplates of Current Grolier Club Members
Notes
Index of Owners, Collectors, Designers & Printers
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.
