Grolier Club member Richard Ring is pleased to announce the availability of the following publication:
Lawrence C. Wroth (1884-1970) was a
librarian of the first rank among those at work when the "golden age"
of private book collecting in America was waning, institutional interest was
waxing, and gentleman-scholars were being replaced by professional scholar-librarians.
The
“Notes for Bibliophiles” he wrote for ten years in the New York Herald-Tribune were
brief and intended for the general public, but they were written by an
acknowledged authority on bibliography, printing history, and the history of colonial
America. Reproduced herein are articles on figures as diverse as Wilberforce
Eames, Daniel Berkeley Updike and A. S. W. Rosenbach; on institutions such as
the Huntington, Folger, Houghton, and New York Public Libraries; on
publications such as the Colophon,
Donald Wing’s S.T.C., and the
bibliographies of Henry R. Wagner; and on major gifts of collections,
exhibitions, and the contemporary auction scene.
This
collection will appeal to all who are interested in Americana, bibliography,
book collecting, and in revisiting an important decade in American book
history, guided by an insider with perceptive wit and literary style.
Paperbound, 9.25 x 6.5 in.,
seven full-color illustrations, 240 pp., designed by Scott J. Vile of the
Ascensius Press and printed in 200 copies. $40.00 each
Email
richard.ring2@gmail.com
A signed, numbered (I-XX) series [ALL SOLD]
Collectors can purchase a
signed, numbered copy of the book paired with a complete original issue of the New
York Herald-Tribune BOOKS from 1940, containing a “Notes for Bibliophiles”
article NOT reprinted in the book, and housed in an archival portfolio. $100.00 each
No. Issue of BOOKS / NFB article inside
I January 14, 1940. “Music and Edgar Allen Poe” [Music and Edgar Allen Poe, A
Bibliographical Study by May Garrettson
Evans]; “English Books in the
Newberry Library”; “Approaching
Auctions: The Parke-Burnet Galleries”;
“G. A. Baker & Co. Gallery”
Includes an original subscription ticket
for
BOOKS Affixed to the front page SOLD
BOOKS Affixed to the front page SOLD
II February 11, 1940. Review of The Minerva Press, 1790-1820 by
Dorothy Blakey; “A
Bibliography of American
Biography” [Biography by Americans,
1658-1936: A
Subject Bibliography by Edward H.
O’Niell] SOLD
III February 25, 1940. “Printing Anniversary Exhibitions in New York
City” by Hellmut
Lehmann-Haupt AVAILABLE
IV March 10, 1940. “First Folio at Large” [stolen from the Chapin
Library]; “The
Colophon Writes ‘Finis’”; “The
Morgan Library Exhibition Extended” SOLD
V March 24, 1940. “Calligraphy and Printing”; “The Paper
Museum”; “Mexican
Printing”; “The Columbus
Letter” SOLD
VI April 7, 1940. “Updike Exhibition” by Peter Beilenson
[exhibit at the Grolier Club] SOLD
VII April 21, 1940. “Printing Anniversaries” [subheadings for
Providence, Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Chicago] SOLD
VIII May 5, 1940. “Early Connecticut Maps” [Maps of Connecticut Before the Year 1800
by Edmund Thompson]; “Franklin
as Bill Collector”; “A Picturesque Incident in
Library History” SOLD
IX May 19, 1940. Review by Meta P. Harrsen (Pierpont Morgan
Library) of The Tickhill
Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in
England During the Early Fourteenth Century,
by Donald Drew Egbert; “New
York Fiction Reading in 1804” SOLD
X June 2, 1940. “Lady in Waiting—A Lafayette Romance” [Le Triomphe du Beaux
Sexe, ou Epitre de M. le Mquis de La Fayette a son
Epouse, an item in the sale of the
collection of Dr. Roderick
Terry in 1934]; “Some Recent Bookseller’s Catalogues” SOLD
XI June 16, 1940. “Two Monographs” [A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to
the Restoration (vol. 1) by W. W.
Greg and Early Spanish Bookbindings,
XI-XV
Centuries by Henry Thomas];
“The First Specimen Sheet of Fell Types” SOLD
XII June 30, 1940. Review by Robert W. Kenny (Brown U.) of The
text of the Canterbury
Tales studied on the basis of
all known manuscripts by John M. Manly and
Edith Rickert; “The Fairfield Type” SOLD
XIII July 28, 1940. “The Second Census of Incunabula” [Incunabula in American
Libraries: A Second
Census of Fifteenth Century Books Owned in the United States
and Canada by Margaret Bingham
Stillwell]; “Printing and Engraving History” [The
Origins of Printing and Engraving
by Andre Blum] SOLD
XIV August 11, 1940. “Two New Periodicals” [The Princeton University Library
Chronicle and Print: A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts] SOLD
XV August 25, 1940. Review of Bibliography
of Mathematical Works Printed in America
Through 1850 by Louis C. Karpinski;
“Another Dormy House Catalogue” and
“Wilkie Collins and George
Reade” [collection of Morris L. Parrish] SOLD
XVI September 8, 1940. Review by Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen (Brown
U.) of The
Medieval Library by James Westfall
Thompson SOLD
XVII September 22, 1940. Review of The
Elements of Lettering by John Howard Benson
and Arthur Graham Carey; “A
Sidney Lanier Concordance”; “A New Manual of
English and American Letters” SOLD
XVIII October 20, 1940. “A Edward Newton, Bookman” [Obit./tribute by
Randolph G.
Adams]; “The Gribbel Sale” SOLD
XIX November 3, 1940. “The Dolphin” [first issue]; “‘This England,’
A Rosenbach
Company Exhibition”; “The
American Institute of Graphic Arts Meetings”; “Mixed
Sale at the Parke-Burnet
Galleries” SOLD
XX December 29, 1940. “The Animal Kingdom” by Henry Watson Kent
(Secretary of the
Met. Museum of Art) [exhibit at
the Pierpont Morgan Library]; “The Beginnings
of the Press in York, Pa.” [The First Printers of York, Pennsylvania
by Douglas
C. McMurtrie] SOLD
