Research Catalog

Title

In pursuit of a vision : two centuries of collecting at the American Antiquarian Society.

Author

American Antiquarian Society. Library

Publication

Worcester, Massachusetts : American Antiquarian Society, 2012.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Whitesell, David R. (David Rhodes), 1954-
• Hewes, Lauren B.
• Knoles, Thomas.
• Grolier Club, host institution.

Description

222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 28 cm

Alternative Title

Two centuries of collecting at the American Antiquarian Society

Subject

• American Antiquarian Society. Library > History > Exhibitions
• Research libraries > Acquisitions > History > Massachusetts > Worcester > Exhibitions
• Book collecting > United States > History > Exhibitions
• United States > History > Bibliography > Exhibitions
• United States > Imprints > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies – Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition drawn from the collections of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Grolier Club in New York from September 12 through November 17, 2012.
• Exhibition curated by David R. Whitesell; catalog essays and entries by Lauren B. Hewes (co-editor), Thomas G. Knoles (co-editor), David R. Whitesell, Laura E. Wasowicz, and Vincent Golden; preface by Ellen S. Dunlap; exhibition conservation by Babette Gehnrich and Laura Oxley; photography by Stephanie Richardson; digital coordination by Jaclyn Penny; and editorial management and design by Abigail P. Hutchinson.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Laying the foundation. Isaiah Thomas as printer, collector, historian and benefactor ; Hannah Mather Crocker and the Mather Family Library ; William Bentley and his library ; Christopher Columbus Baldwin collects for AAS ; Lucy and Sarah Chase collect contemporary history -- Late nineteenth-century benefactors. The Brinley and Cooke sales ; Three prominent Worcester members and collectors -- Collecting in the twentieth century. Charles Henry Taylor, collector extraordinaire ; American literature and poetry ; Early Americana ; Collecting in specialized fields ; The book trades ; Two Worcester collectors ; Westward expansion ; Children's book collecting -- A vision realized. AAS and the bibliography of early American imprints ; Collection development and responsible stewardship.

ISBN

• 9781929545681 (hardbound)
• 1929545681 (hardbound)
• 9781929545698 (softcover)
• 192954569X (softcover)

LCCN

^^2012024968

OCLC

• 799251927
• SCSB-12511423

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library