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Article: Dear Mr Cockerell, Dear Mr Peirce: An Annotated Description of the Correspondence of Sydney C. Cockerell and Harold Peirce in the Grolier Club Archive.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- September 22, 2007
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Dear Mr Cockerell, Dear Mr Peirce: An Annotated Description of the Correspondence of Sydney C. Cockerell and Harold Peirce in the Grolier Club Archive. Arthur L. Schwarz. Rivendale Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. 224 pages. ISBN 978-1-904201-06-7. New York's Grolier Club is a famous retreat for bookmen. Founded in 1884, it was named after Jean Grolier, Viscount d' Aguisy, a leading French bibliophile of the Renaissance. A respected member was Harold Peirce (1856-1932), a wealthy Philadelphian businessman. Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), William Morris' secretary, and later Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, purchased rare volumes ...