BOSTON EVENING TR The Bibliographer T HE latest Grolier Club exhibition is a showing of books, engravings, watercolors, sketches and manuscripts by William Blake. At the annual meeting of the club, on which occasion members only were admitted to the club house, two of the three vellum copies printed in December last of the club's latest publication, R. T. Haines Halsey's "The Boston Port Bill," were offered for sale, the first copy bringing $450, the second fetching $425, The ordinary edition, subscribed for soon after the day of publication, Dec. 20, consisted of 325 copies on American hand-made paper (of which 301 copies were offered for subscription at $30 each). The third vellum copy was reserved for the club's library. The members of the Grolier Club are to be cordially congratulated on exhibiting so excellently their present collection of Blake's works, which will be open to the public until Saturday, Feb. 25. The first American exhibition of works by William Blake was held at the Boston Museum of 4000 |