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...Fogg Art Museum is now to be seen the biggest collection of William Blake's illuminated books ever brought together. It is virtually the entire collection exhibited at the Grolier. Club of New York, where it attracted a great deal of attention. To it have been added a number of Boston items. All these books belong to private libraries; so the opportunity of seeing such a collection will undoubtedly never be repeated...
...English painter and poet, William Blake, may now be seen at the Fogg Art Museum, and will continue on view until January 27. This exhibition, probably the largest collection of Blake's works that has been gathered together, is virtually the complete collection recently given at the Grolier Club, New York City augmented by valuable works belonging to several Boston collectors...
...connected. Prominent among the latter was the Crolier Club of New York, of which he was one of the earliest members and a constant and most generous benefactor. Hilast days were spent in editing a catalogue of his collections of angling bookplates which have been on exhibition at the Grolier Club...
...seventy-five in number, are a loan to the Museum from Mr. la Rose's collection; and, as they are all artist's proofs, they will afford the amateur of book-plates a better opportunity of studying Mr. French's work than has ever been offered since the Grolier Club's exhibition several years ago. Of special local interest will be the plates which French engraved for the Harvard Library and for several of the Harvard undergraduate clubs. The selection of prints embraces the various types of exlibris, from book-piles and library interiors to portraits and armorials. The collection...
...bronze medallion of the late James Russell Lowell has been hung in the reading room of Gore Hall. It was presented to the Library last year by the Grolier Club of New York...