ABSTRACT
The origin of the Grolier Club of New York is recorded in the first volume of its transactions. They determined to organize a club, and to that end they appointed committees to present a name and to prepare a constitution. A club device, including the arms of Grolier, was provided a fortnight later. The architect, Mr. Charles W. Romeyn, carefully considered the special needs of an association of this sort: that he succeeded in giving the club-house a dignified and characteristic physiognomy of its own, the accompanying sketch shows plainly enough. The double function of the Grolier Club I do not find in any earlier organization either in America or in Europe. Neither in England nor in France is there any society exactly equivalent to this New York club. The Burlington Fine Arts Club does not publish books, and only a few of its valuable exhibitions are devoted to the arts pertaining to the making of books.
