Now Open in Our Ground Floor Gallery: Judging a Book by Its Cover

Bookbindings from the Collections of the Grolier Club, 1470s-2020 January 17 – April 13, 2024 Judging a Book by Its Cover highlights selections from seven centuries of the Grolier Club’s collection of bindings, largely donated and built by the Club’s members over the course of its 140-year history. The exhibition explores the history of decorated …

Now Open in our Second Floor Gallery: Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction

From the Collection of Jeffrey JohnsonNovember 30, 2023 - February 10, 2024 Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction features selections from Grolier Club member Jeffrey Johnson’s more than 400-piece collection of detective novels from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The exhibition highlights more than 90 early examples of the sources, heavily fictionalized memoirs, and …

Now Open in our Ground Floor Gallery: The Best-Read Army in the World

The Power of the Written Word in World War IISeptember 27 - December 30, 2023Curated by Molly Guptill Manning During World War II—a time of rampant propaganda, censorship, and Nazi book bans in Europe—the United States military sent troops into battle armed not only with weapons, but with ideas. The U.S. publishing industry created pocket-sized …

Now Open in our Second Floor Gallery: American Presidents, What They Read and What They Wrote

From the Collection of Susan Tane. Curated by Ms. Tane with her grandchildren, Natalie and Spencer Flaxman September 7 - November 11, 2023 Presidents and Their Books: What They Read and What They Wrote presents selections from the collection of Grolier Club member Susan Jaffe Tane, featuring books read, written, and gifted by the 45 …

Now Open in our Second Floor Gallery -“To Fight For the Poor With My Pen”: Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia

From the Collection of Eve M. KahnMarch 2 – May 13, 2023 "To Fight for the Poor with My Pen" is the first exhibition to explore the legacy of Gilded Age author and reformer Zoe Anderson Norris (1860- 1914). Writer and publisher of the magazine The East Side (bimonthly, 1909-1914), Norris focused on immigrants and …

Now open in our Ground Floor Gallery: Pattern and Flow

"Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s" The Paper Legacy Project collection, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtJanuary 18 – April 8, 2023 "Pattern and Flow" surveys for the first time the golden age of American decorated paper, telling the story of 53 imaginative and innovative …

Now open in our Second Floor Gallery: Animated Advertising

200 Years of Premiums, Promos, and Pop-ups"December 1, 2022 – February 11, 2023 "Animated Advertising" features over 170 unique advertising objects from 200 years that demonstrate how animated and dimensional paper devices are used to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. Curated by Grolier Club member Ellen G. K. Rubin from her extensive pop-up and …

Open now in our Ground Floor Gallery: Building the Book from the Ancient World to Present Day

September 28 - December 23, 2022 We have all been taught how to read books, but have we learned how to look at them closely? What can be gleaned from analyzing an original specimen of ancient papyrus, or by studying rubbings of a Chinese book engraved on stone, or by feeling the heft of a …

Open Now in our Second Floor Gallery: Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young

September 8 – November 12, 2022 Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) is a monumental figure in book and magazine illustration, graphic arts and poster design, as well as the history of gender and sexuality. In his brief career from 1892 to 1898, cut short by his death from tuberculosis, he was a brilliant innovator in the British …

Grolier Club Upcoming Exhibitions Season 2022-2023

Exhibitions Opening September 2022  As the summer comes to a close, we are thrilled to share our upcoming season of exhibitions! Kicking off the year is “Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young,” opening to the public next Thursday, September 8. This fascinating exhibition is curated by Mark Samuels Lasner (Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library, …