ABSTRACT
The Grolier Club is named after Jean Grolier de Servier, Viscount d'Aguisy, Treasurer-General of France, who was a book-lover choosing the best impressions of the best editions of the best books and having them bound by the best binders under his own supervision. In 1534 he had been appointed French ambassador to Clement VII., and it was then that he began to collect books. The researches of M. Le Roux de Lincy, Grolier's erudite biographer, enable us to declare that it was the library, not of a collector of literary varieties, but of a scholar who wished to have at hand the best books of his time. In Paris the National Library, and in London the British Museum, are fortunate in the possession of books bearing Grolier's.
