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(New York): The Grolier Club, 2002.. 2002.. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers with a facsimile letter in gray & black on the front cover. 77 pages. A few black & white illustrations. Fine. <p>The featured articles in this issue are "Sydney Cockerell and Harold Peirce and Their World of Books" by Arthur L. Schwarz, "Fritz Kredel" by Judith Kredel Brown, and "Paracelsus and the Chemical Revolution in Sixteenth-Century Medicine" by Allen G. Debus.
THREE GOLD BEZANTS, THREE SILVER STARS: THE ARMS OF THE GROLIER CLUB 1884-1984 by Holzenberg, Eric - 1999
by Holzenberg, Eric
THREE GOLD BEZANTS, THREE SILVER STARS: THE ARMS OF THE GROLIER CLUB 1884-1984
by Holzenberg, Eric
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- Hardcover
New York: The Grolier Club, 1999. hardcover. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 62 pages. Limited to 240 copies. The arms of Jean Grolier are extremely recognizable in book collecting. He used them on bindings, opening leafs, and other leafs of his texts. Now, visitors to the Grolier Club see Jean Grolier's arms in carved stone at the Street entrance, in plaster over the fireplace, and in various other places throughout the Club. This book has divided the Grolier arms into two categories: the Grolier arms used in publications and the arms used in ex libris. They are roughly grouped chronologically by date of original publication and each illustration is accompanied by a short explanation of when the device first appeared, and by whom it was designed. It contains a history of the arms of the Grolier Club since 1884, and Kit Currie provides a prefatory essay titled, "The Arms of Jean Grolier." The book includes 22 illustrations, many printed from the original blocks, with three tipped in bookplates. A preface by Eric Holzenberg, club publications, and club bookplates are also presented. It was written in Herman Zapf's Renaissance roman and italic types. Design and typography were by Jerry Kelly.
- Bookseller Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher The Grolier Club
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1999