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Grolier was one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana (1945), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), and numerous incarnations of a CD-ROM encyclopedia (1986–2003).
The Grolier Club is a private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City.Founded in January 1884, it is the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America. The club is named after Jean Grolier de Servières, Viscount d'Aguisy, Treasurer General of France, whose library was famous; his motto, "Io.
Jean Grolier de Servières, viscount d'Aguisy (c. 1489/90 – 22 October 1565) was Treasurer-General of France and a famous bibliophile. As a book collector, Grolier is known in particular for his patronage of the Aldine Press, and his love of richly decorated bookbindings.
The Codex was first displayed at the Grolier Club in New York, hence its name. The first Mexican owner, Josué Saenz, claimed that the manuscript had been recovered from a cave in the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1960s, along with a mosaic mask, a wooden box, a knife handle, as well as a child's sandal and a piece of rope, along with some blank pages of amate (pre-Columbian fig-bark paper).
From 1949 Grolier also issued a Book of Knowledge Annual. [4] Encyclopaedia Britannica praised the index system that was introduced by the Book of Knowledge: "much of the success of the work as a reference tool resulted from its splendidly contrived index, which remains a model of its kind.". [5] There was a separate index for poetry.
The encyclopedia was a successor to the Book of Knowledge, published from 1912 to 1965.This was a topically arranged encyclopedia described as an "entirely new work" under the editorial direction of Martha G. Schapp, head of overall encyclopedia direction at Grolier, and the specific direction of Dr. Lowell A. Martin.
29 East 32nd Street (also known as the Old Grolier Club or Gilbert Kiamie House) is a building in Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1889 and designed by Charles W. Romeyn [2] in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, it originally housed the Grolier Club. It is now called the Madison and became a New York City designated landmark in 1970.
Grolier was an American publisher, now an imprint of Scholastic. Grolier may also refer to: Jean Grolier de Servières, viscount d'Aguisy (1479–1565), Treasurer-General of France and a bibliophile; Grolier Club, a private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City, United States; Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts ...