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Gazette of the Grolier Club Number 6 May, 1924 GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB CONTENTS The Fortieth Anniversary of the Club.—Saturday Afternoons at the Grolier Club.—Exhibitions and Addresses. —Recent and Forthcoming Publications.—The Gift of the Morgan Library.—The Clements Library of Americana.— Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.—Books and Manuscripts of Charles Lamb. —Durham Cathedral and Richard de Bury, Patron Saint of Books. “It is a good thing to read books, and it need not be a bad thing to write them; but it is a pious thing to preserve those that have been some time written.” Frederick Locker-Lampson. The Fortieth Anniversary of the Club. The An- nual Meeting, the fortieth in the history of the Club, occurred on Thursday evening, January 24th. A special effort had been made by the Council to bring together some of the older members, and the number present 114 was a cause for special gratification. It was a pleas- ure to meet so many of the men who had been active in the affairs of the Club, but who, for various reasons, are now less regular in their attendance at meetings. A cablegram was received from Richard Hoe Law- rence, the eighth President, then in Rome, and a letter from Dean Andrew F. West of Princeton, an Honor- ary Member of the Club since the publication of Richard de Bury’s "Philobiblon,” which he edited. The Club honored itself by electing, as an Honorary Member, Wilberforce Fames, dean of American bibli- ographers. The evening, with its addresses, exhibition of fine printing of the past forty years, and old friends, all reminiscent of the anniversary character of the occa- sion, was a pleasant one. Saturday Afternoons at the Grolier Club. -It may be well to remind the members that a very pleasant institution has been gaining in its attractiveness dur- ing the last few years, that of gathering in the Council Room on Saturday afternoons. The Librarian wel- comes the members and their friends, and, as often happens, distinguished guests, and an opportunity is given for conversation and books and such things. Many resident members who do not find it easy or convenient, owing to New York’s demands upon them, to come to the weekly Thursday evening meetings, seem to find this a pleasant way of enjoying the Club. 115 It is hoped that others will form the habit of dropping in, and that out-of-town members will bear the custom in mind when they are in New York. Exhibitions and Addresses. •In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of "Elia," the first exhibition of the present season was one com- memorative of Charles Lamb. At its opening, on November 15th, an address was made by Ernest Dressel North, who has contributed to this number of the Gazette a sympathetic description of the exhibition. At the meeting held on December 20, the well- known type designer, Frederic W. Goudy, gave an il- lustrated talk upon the “Forms of Letters." The exhibition of “Books showing the Development of Printing as a Fine Art in America,” from 1884 to 1924, which was arranged for the Annual Meeting, was continued through February, and on February 21 Harry Lyman Koopman, Librarian of Brown Univer- sity, addressed the Club upon the subject. The one hundred and twenty-five volumes compris- ing the main section of the exhibition, arranged chrono- logically, were selected with discriminating care, and additional cases were filled with some of the books which have influenced printers, from the Forty-two- Line Bible to the Bible printed by the Doves Press in 1902. There was also a group of the “Works on Print- ing and Type Specimen Books of Theodore Low De Vinne,” and another of “Modern American Books on 116 Printing and Printers.” The general interest evinced in the subject of the exhibition was gratifying, in that it is indicative of a growing interest in and demand for fine printing. The March exhibition was one of "Modem Books Illustrated in Color,” and for a short time the quiet room blossomed gayly. At the opening meeting, on March 20th, Harry A. Groesbeck gave an instructive talk upon Some of the Processes used in Plate-making for Color Printing. By the time that this number of the Gazette is issued, the exhibition of Japanese Landscape Prints will be in place, and Ladies’ Day a thing of the past. Recent and Forthcoming Publications. -The Com- mittee on Publications desires to call attention to the fact that there are still available a number of copies of “A Descriptive Catalogue of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley,” 1923. In this connection, it seems desirable to quote from a review which appeared in the Bookman’s Jour- nal, London, August, 1923: "The Grolier Club has a long record of successful publication, and its librarian a reputation for exact and painstaking bibliography. The path of the Shelley collector being beset with pit- falls, the making of this bibliography has been no easy task, but Miss Granniss has surmounted all difficulties, and produced a volume that will be an indispensable guide to the collector and a joy to the booklover.” 117 The Committee has every reason for gratification at the reception accorded to the three volumes of the "Printers’ Series” already issued. Two more volumes are in process of distribution, and only the delivery of the remaining one is necessary to complete the set, which has been largely oversubscribed. Members who enjoyed Louis V. Ledoux's catalogue of the Exhibition of Japanese Figure Prints, held by the Club last year, will be glad to know that an illus- trated edition, on large paper, will be issued shortly, together with a similar volume, descriptive of the present exhibition of Japanese Landscape Prints. THE GIFT OF THE MORGAN LIBRARY Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan’s gift of his library to the public is one of the most important events that have happened in this country in the whole realm of things connected with the Book. Among the great private libraries of all time, this collection takes its place in the front rank. It may not be amiss to consider what it is that gives it its high place, indeed, an individual place among the libraries, and what it is that makes this gift so vital. First, then, it contains the corpus of our great liter- ature. Second, it offers through the two mediums by which this literature has been transmitted to us—the manuscript and the printed book—the material for 118 the stu3y of calligraphy and typography throughout their periods of development, as well as of illustration and binding; in a word, we have here the material for the study of the Book in its entirety. Third, it offers the widest field for original study and research in Bibliography. And fourth, the greatest privilege of all, through the terms of the gift it offers incentive of the finest kind to emulation in all of these fields. Add to these reasons still another, which applies in a marked degree: the Morgan Library offers preemi- nently, because of the perfection of the state of the copies of the books it contains, opportunity for the study of the arts of the Book—writing, illumination, printing, engraving, ornament, and binding—in their highest expression,—arts which at their best, as here, are fine indeed. It is to the great collectors that the world has ever owed the books of earlier periods. It does not matter with what motives these were brought together; it does not matter, even, if this was done through the promptings of what once was called a mania for the “curiosities” of the book, for large paper, or uncut, or illustrated, or unique copies, copies on vellum, first editions, true editions, or black letter books. It is the men and women since the time of Petrarch, to go no further back, who, with whatever motive they collected, by their earnestness and liberality have saved what otherwise would have been lost. They it is who have handed down our rich heritage to us. 119 To Mr. Morgan, the giver of this great library, and to his father, the collector of it, men will look in after years as to those who have made it possible to carry on in this country the traditions of one of the mightiest of the arts under the inspiration of the highest standards. Chaucer, in his “Parliament of Pools” summed up the whole matter when he said: For out of the old feldes, as men saythe, Cometh al this newe come fro yere to yere, And out of old bokes, in good faythe, Cometh al this newe science that men lere. H. W. K. THE CLEMENTS LIBRARY OF AMERICANA Some months ago, William Lawrence Clements, a member of the Grolier Club, presented to the Univer- sity of Michigan the great collection of Americana which he had gathered with much care and discrimina- tion during a long period of years. This is one of the largest and finest collections of its kind, containing some twenty-two thousand volumes, many of them of great rarity. It is interesting to note that, of the six Trustees who have the administration of this library, four are members of the Grolier Club—William Law- rence Clements, William Smith Mason, George Parker Winship, and William Warner Bishop. The institution is known as “The Clements Library of American His- tory." 120 Students of American history and bibliography are also much indebted to Mr. Clements for a book which he has written, describing this collection.
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