RARE "CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS INTERESTING THROUGH THEIR ASSOCIATIONS" 1896 Caxton Club of Chicago printed by RR Donnelley Lakeside Press.

Unopened pages. 54 pages, 7 x 5.5 inches. 

Exhibition from November 29, 1902 at the Caxton Club Rooms in the Fine Arts Building.  This catalog for an exhibition of Rare Books and Autographs from the Caxton Club is illustrated with facsimiles of handscripts and notes from flyleafs, margins, etc. and offers a window into literary history. This edition highlights inscribed copies, manuscript notes, and bookplates that reveal each volume’s provenance and personal connections.

Soiling to cover. Corners lightly bumped. Spine has flea bite.  Unopened (pages are bound in quartos and are uncut).

Together with ephemera from the Caxton Club – vintage letterpress invitations (by Lakeside Press), Celebrating a Century of the Book in Chicago, etc.

The Caxton Club was founded in Chicago in January 1895 by fifteen bibliophiles. Their charter stated that the intent of the club was “the literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books and the occasional publishing of books designed to illustrate, promote, and encourage these arts.”

Today the Caxton Club has more than 375 resident and nonresident members of all ages and from a wide variety of fields—archivists, authors, binders, book artists, collectors, conservators, dealers, designers, editors, librarians, publishers, and scholars—united by the love of books in all their forms. Club members from these diverse backgrounds form a community of those interested in the study and promotion of the arts and technologies pertaining to the production, distribution, and reception of handwritten and printed books and related textual objects such as pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera.

Throughout its history, the Caxton Club has published fine books on a variety of subjects, including Americana, art history, the book arts, the history of printing and collecting, and literature. The club continues its commitment to publishing.

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