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Foundation of The Grolier Club

1/23/1884
The newly renovated main exhibition hall at The Grolier Club designed by Ann Beha Architects.

The newly renovated main exhibition hall at The Grolier Club designed by Ann Beha Architects.

On January 23, 1884 printing press manufacturer and book collector, Robert Hoe, and eight of his book collector friends, including printer and printing historian Theodore Low De Vinne, founded The Grolier Club in New York. It became the leading society of bibliophiles in the United States, and a leading venue for exhibitions relating to book history. 

The library of The Grolier Club became a leading research center for book history, for the history of libraries, the history of book collecting and the book trade.

I was very pleased to join The Grolier Club in 1989.

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