The Grolier Club

The Grolier Club is a private NYC club with galleries that are free and open to members of the public. The club was established in 1884, making it the oldest North American bibliophilic club in existence. The Grolier Club aims to focus on "the literary study of the arts pertaining to the production of books, including the occasional publication of books designed to illustrate, promote and encourage these arts; and the acquisition, furnishing and maintenance of a suitable club building for the safekeeping of its property, wherein meetings, lectures and exhibitions shall take place from time to time." Here are some of the "must see" items at The Grolier Club. Peter Koch Printer: A Forty-five-year Retrospective at the Grolier Club Embodied Language and the Form of the Book "The A.B.C. of Alphabets" from the Collection of Gretchen Adkins Poet of the Body: New York's Walt Whitman