Grolier Club. Complete Author Series Medals. All Five Bronze Medals of the Literature Series: Hawthorne, Lowell, Poe, Longfellow and Emerson, 1892-1911
New York: Grolier, 1892. No Binding. Fine. Item #47653
Offered here together, the five bronze medals of the Literature Series, of the renowned Grolier Club Medals. This set of five large bronze medals honors famous American writers, which were commissioned by the Grolier Club and produced from 1892-1911. Most of the approximately 300 printers' medals in the Grolier Club Library were donated to the Club by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), Edwin B. Holden (1861-1906), and other members. THe majority were created to commemorate typographers and printers, and the collection includes spectacular medals of literary figures as well, which are extremely well-made and sought after. Rare together like offered here, in fine condition. Nathaniel Hawthorne by Ringel D'Illzach (1892); James Russell Lowell by Charles Calverley (1895); Edgar Allen Poe by Edith Woodman Burroughs (1909); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by John Flanagan (1911); Ralph Waldo Emerson by Victor D. Brenner (1911). 1) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Diameter 17.7 cm. 2) Lowell, James Russell. Diameter 17.2 cm, imprinted "Copyrighted 1896" on the back. 3) Poe, Edgar Allan Poe. Diameter 17.4 cm. 4) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 18.5 x 14.5 cm. Imprint on back GRIFFOUL FOUNDERS. 5) Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Diameter 18.4 cm.
Price (CAD): $4,250.00