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GROLIER CLUB]. An extensive collection of more than 540 Grolier Club publications, New York, 1880-2000. Various formats, original bindings (condition varies). Including: [1884-1890:] A Decree of Star Chamber Concerning Printing. Made July 11, 1637. December 1884. Asaf I.1. Reprinted from the first edition by Robert Barker 1637. Printed paper wrappers, in case. No. 9 of 150 copies, signed by the officers of the club. -- OMAR KHAYYAM. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald 1885. Vellum wrappers, printed with floral pattern in blue, green and gold, in case. No. 62 of 150 paper copies. Asaf I.2. -- Transactions of the Grolier Club from its Foundation January 1884 to July 1885. Part I. 1885. Gray paper wrappers over boards. Asaf III.2. -- IRVING, Washington. A History of New-York ... by Diedrich Knickerbocker. 1886. 2 vols. Orange paper boards. One of 175 copies. Asaf I.3. -- IRVING, Washington. A History of New-York ... by Diedrich Knickerbocker. 1886. 2 vols. Red morocco. One of 175 copies. Asaf I.3. -- HOE, Robert. A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art, Delivered Before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885 . Half-cloth. Asaf I.4. DE VINNE, Theodore Low. Historic Printing Types. 1886. Cream cloth spine and corners, paper boards. One of 200 paper copies. Asaf I.5. -- READE, Charles. Peg Woffington. New York: Printed for the Grolier Club, 1887. 2 vols. White cloth boards, gold-blocked. Asaf I.6. -- DE VINNE, Theodore Low. Christopher Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp. 1888. White cloth spine, printed paper boards, broken and repaired. Asaf I.7. One of 300 paper copies. -- BURY, Richardus de. Ricardi de Bury Philobiblon ex optimis codicibus recensuit versione anglica necnon et prolegomenis adnotationibusque auxit Andreas Fleming West. 1889. 3 vols. White paper boards. One of 297 paper copies. Asaf I.8. -- MATTHEWS, William. Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered. 1889. Cream cloth boards. One of 300 paper copies. Asaf I.9. -- Catalogue of an Exhibition of Illustrated Bill-Posters. November, 1890. 1890. Off-white paper wrappers. Asaf II.10. -- MILTON, John. Areopagitica. A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England. With an introduction by James Russell Lowell. 1890. Blue paper boards. One of 325 paper copies. Asaf I.10. [1891-1900:] CURTIS, George William Washington Irving. A Sketch. 1891. Red morocco. One of 344 copies. Asaf I.12. -- Effigies of the Most Famous English Writers from Chaucer to Johnson. Exhibited ... December, 1891. 1891. Green morocco spine and corners, marbled paper boards. One of 200 large-paper copies. Asaf I.13. -- Catalogue of Works on Alchemy and Chemistry. Exhibited ... Jan. 16th to Jan. 26th, 1891. 1891. Off-white paper wrappers. Asaf II.12. -- Catalogue of an Exhibition of Engraved Portraits, Being the Effigies of the Most Famous English Writers from Chaucer to Johnson. December 8 to 22, 1891. 1891. Off-white paper wrappers. One of 200 large-paper copies. Asaf I.13. -- Catalogue of an Exhibition of Engraved Portraits, Being the Effigies of the Most Famous English Writers from Chaucer to Johnson. December 8 to 22, 1891. 1891. Off-white paper wrappers. Asaf II.14. -- CONWAY, Moncure Daniel. Barons of the Potomack and Rappahannock. 1892. Light blue boards (rebacked). Asaf I.14. -- A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Illuminated and Painted Manuscripts Together with a Few Early Printed Books with Illuminations -- Also Some Examples of Persian Manuscripts -- With Plates in Facsimile and an Introductory Essay. 1892. Green cloth boards. One of 350 copies. Asaf I.15. -- Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Langland to Wither. 1893. Sheep spine, tan cloth boards (rebacked). One of 400 paper copies. Asaf I.16. -- Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits. Feb. 16 - Mar. 4, 1893. 1893. Off-white paper wrappers