[Rarebooks] FS: Three Gold Bezants, Three Silver Stars: The Arms of the Grolier Club

[Karen Howell]

I Offer:

HOLZENBERG, Eric.  Three Gold Bezants, Three Silver Stars: The Arms of the Grolier club 1884-1984.  Series: Grolier Fine Printing, New Series, No. 2. 

8vo.  209 x 134 mm.  61, [3] pp.  Bookplates, index; text clean, un-marked.  Gilt-stamped navy cloth, printed paper spine label, laid paper end-leaves; binding square and tight.  Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down.  Fine.  SCARCE.

$ 100 net to the list

LIMITED EDITION of 240 copies printed in Hermann Zapf's Renaissance Roman type on Arches paper at the Stinehour Press.  This book presents a comprehensive study of the arms utilized by the Grolier Club of New York; includes a study of the Arms of Jean Grolier by Kit Currie, and survey of the Grolier Arms in Club Publications, and a survey of the Grolier Arms in Club.   Many of the illustrations of the Club's coat of arms were printed from the original cuts from the archives of the Grolier Club, and the engraved bookplate (number 20) was pulled from the original plate by the Thornwillow Press, and the tipped-in bookplates are all from the original printings.  Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. 

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John Howell
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