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HOE, Robert, III (1839-1909). A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art, delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885. New York: De Vinne Press for the Grolier Club, 1886.
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HOE, Robert, III (1839-1909). A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art, delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885. New York: De Vinne Press for the Grolier Club, 1886.
4o (245 x 197 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, 63 binding reproductions, artotypes by E. Bierstadt, each printed on satin. CONTEMPORARY GOLD-TOOLED AND MOSAIC BINDING SIGNED "THE CLUB BINDERY, 1903 LEON MAILLARD FINISHER" OF NEW YORK: red morocco, sides and spine inlaid with green colored morocco to a strapwork design, the compartments filled with leafy arabesques of inlaid with ivory colored morocco, gilt fillets, scrolls and fleurons, gold-tooled turn-ins and vellum doublures stamped with Robert Hoe's gilt monogram, vellum free endleaves, gilt edges; quarter morocco chemise, slipcase. Provenance: Robert Hoe III (gilt monogram; his sale part I, Anderson, 28 April 1911, lot 1705).
FIRST EDITION, APPARENTLY ONE OF THREE COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM FOR THE AUTHOR, WITH THE PLATES PRINTED ON SATIN. Robert Hoe was a founder and first president of the Grolier Club. He may with justification be classed among the great book collectors of all time, and was the first American to collect bookbindings systematically and with informed taste. He was one of the driving forces behind THE CLUB BINDERY which was founded in 1895 by the leading members of the Grolier Club. Together with a team of highly skilled workers, the firm sought to produce first class bindings for their thirteen shareholders and other collectors. Léon Maillard being the most talented finisher, had emigrated to the United States from Paris in 1897. Under Maillard's skilled craftsmanship, the bindery produced many of the most elaborate and beautiful bindings of its time. The New York Times praised the Bindery in April 1900 "for the completeness of its equipment and the artistic nature of its work. The Club Bindery is probably inferior to no establishment of its kind, either at home or abroad." This and the following 13 lots are from the collection of a descendant of Robert Hoe.
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FIRST EDITION, APPARENTLY ONE OF THREE COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM FOR THE AUTHOR, WITH THE PLATES PRINTED ON SATIN. Robert Hoe was a founder and first president of the Grolier Club. He may with justification be classed among the great book collectors of all time, and was the first American to collect bookbindings systematically and with informed taste. He was one of the driving forces behind THE CLUB BINDERY which was founded in 1895 by the leading members of the Grolier Club. Together with a team of highly skilled workers, the firm sought to produce first class bindings for their thirteen shareholders and other collectors. Léon Maillard being the most talented finisher, had emigrated to the United States from Paris in 1897. Under Maillard's skilled craftsmanship, the bindery produced many of the most elaborate and beautiful bindings of its time. The New York Times praised the Bindery in April 1900 "for the completeness of its equipment and the artistic nature of its work. The Club Bindery is probably inferior to no establishment of its kind, either at home or abroad." This and the following 13 lots are from the collection of a descendant of Robert Hoe.