Inherent in the Grolier Club’s extensive collection is the Lisa Unger Baskin Exhibition which showcases a land grant from the thirteenth century. The scribal parchment is the collections’ oldest item, dated back to the 9th of March in 1240. Signed by Ildenbrandinus de Navacchio, this document expresses a posthumous request […]
Digital Essays
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By: Otasha James Futura is a font which started being sketched in 1924 and was released in 1927, at the Bauer Type Foundry. It is referred to as, “the fully developed prototype of the century Geometric Sans-serif .” Designed by Paul Renner, Futura was designed as a contribution on the […]
Richard Minsky is an American scholar of book binding and a book artist. Minsky obtained his first printing press in 1960, at the age of 13. He wanted to replace rubber stamps that he was previously using. Richard Minsky is a pivotal figure in the book arts community. He created […]
I came across this piece on our trip to the Grolier Club. This artifact was in the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection and is a wanted poster by Elizabeth Delahoy which was printed in the year 1823. It was amazing to see a piece from almost two hundred years ago, and […]
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the oldest scholarly society in the North American region that is dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts. Bibliography is the study of books as physical, cultural objects. Further, it is the study of the book or manuscript itself rather than what […]
Booth #A20 “Les Enluminures” had this book named Book of Prayers woven after illuminations in manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth century which was selling for $55,000.00. This uncommon Book of Prayers is entirely machine-woven of gray and black silk, with a grayish-silver texture to the cast and various styles […]
Every year, sellers from all over the world gather in New York City to show and sell rare items such as books, maps, and artwork at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. On March 6, 2020, I visited the Park Avenue Armory to experience this event for the first […]
With its whimsical and inviting cover illustrations, The Fairy-Land of Science, found at the Grolier Club’s exhibition of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection called Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work, reaches out to its intended audience of children by promising the kind of magic they’d find in a Brothers Grimm […]
March of this year, our Book Technology class visited the 2020 New York International Book Fair. Held at Park Avenue Armory, The New York International Book Fair is where booksellers from all over the world fly to NYC to exhibit and sell various rare printed materials ranging from rare books, […]
The English Reformation started in the reign of Henry VIII. This was during the time when Henry VIII decided to divorce himself from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon after she failed to conceive a male child to the lineage. By that time, he already had his mistress Anne Boleyn. […]
