ABSTRACT
No better choice could the Grolier Club have made than the work selected as its third publication. By good fortune the humorous chronicle of the learned and gentle Dutch antiquary lends itself easily to abundant illustration and decoration; and of the opportunities offered by the late Diedrich Knickerbocker the present Grolier Club has been swift to avail itself. Except a useful pamphlet of "Transactions" the "Knickerbocker's 'History of New York'" was the only publication of the Grolier Club during the season of 1885–1886; and during the next winter the club confined itself to the printing of certain of the lectures delivered before it. In 1890 one of the most artistic of the club's publications was issued, artistic largely because of its seemly simplicity. Hitherto the publications of the Grolier Club had been of two kinds: either they were lectures delivered before the members or they were independent works which the club wished to honour.
