[Grolier Club | Ephemera] Catalogue of an Exhibition of First and Other Editions of the Works of John Dryden

Exhibition of First and Other Editions of the Works of John Dryden (1631–1700), together with a few engraved portraits and two oil paintings—commemorative of the two hundredth anniversary of his death. New York: The Grolier Club, 1900. 12mo. Original cream wrappers printed in black and red with the Club device; untrimmed. The checklist for the Club’s Dryden bicentenary exhibition, covering primary editions, variant issues, portraits, and related material. Some light toning, minor chips to corners of covers.

Together with two pieces of contemporaneous Grolier Club ephemera:

Prospectus for the large-paper edition of the Dryden catalogue, printed in black and red beneath the Club device. 

Invitation on handmade paper to the Club's Monthly Meeting on March 8th, 1900, with reproduction of an oval portrait engraving of “Mr. John Dryden” printed in black to the front cover, and the meeting being the first viewing of the Dryden exhibition. Includes original tissue.