| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Notes on the origin and history of the "Ark,"
| | | | Creator: | Case, Eckstein, 1858- | | | | Publication: | Printed for the Rowfant club, Cleveland,1902. | | | | Notes: | "One hundred and thirty copies of this book have been printed at the Marion press, Jamaica, Queensborough, New York, this being number 128." "'The Ark' was the early Bohemian or literary club of Cleveland, and a forerunner, in a way, of the Rowfant club."--The bibliographer, Oct. 1902, p. 323. | | | | Call #: | Z1008 R881Ca | | | | Extent: | 2 p. Á., 46 p., 1 Á. pl., facsim. 31 x 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | The tale of the Rowfant wallclock: an historical narrative poem
| | | | Creator: | Bleecker, Russell V. | | | | | Alburn, Cary R. | | | | | Liggett, Carr. | | | | | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | | | | Publication: | The Rowfant Club, Cleveland,[1964] | | | | Call #: | Z1008 R884 no. 2 | | | | Extent: | [i]-viii, 9-22 p., 1 Á. : ill. ; 20.4 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Wrongfontia: a semi-occasional publication of the Rowfant Club. Number 3
| | | | Creator: | Shera, Jesse Hauk, 1903-1982 | | | | | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | | | | | Carlylle Press | | | | Publication: | The Club], Cleveland, Ohio,1983. | | | | Notes: | Cover title. Poetic and prose parodies and an original poem written by Jesse H. Shera for the 1979 Rowfant Christmas auction. "This number in the series of Wrongfontia has been printed ... by the Carlylle Press of Cleveland, Ohio ... edition limited to three hundred copies."--Colophon. | | | | Call #: | Z1008 R884 no. 3 | | | | Extent: | 1 folded sheet (13 p.) ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | Parodies
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Frederick Locker-Lampson, a character sketch: with a small selection from letters addressed to him and bibliographical notes on a few of the books formerly in the Rowfant library
| | | | Creator: | Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 | | | | Publication: | Constable and company limited, London,1920. | | | | Notes: | "Publications of the Rowfant club": p. 202-206. | | | | Call #: | Z989 L813B6 | | | | Extent: | ix, 206 p., 1 Á. 3 plates, 2 port. (incl. front.) facsim. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Locker-Lampson, Frederick, -- 1821-1895 | Rowfant library | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Annual address of the president 1897
| | | | Creator: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | | | | | Gaylord, William Henry, 1842-1905 | | | | Publication: | Printed for the Rowfant Club, Cleveland,1897. | | | | Notes: | "William Henry Gaylord, president of the Rowfant Club 1894-1906"--Anderson, Russell Howard, The Rowfant Club : a history, p. [100] | | | | Call #: | Z1008 R881A4 | | | | Extent: | 26 p. : port. ; 15 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | Book clubs (Discussion groups) | Cleveland imprints 1897
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | Rowfant Club Records
| | | | Creator: | Rowfant Club | | | | Dates: | 1891-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The Rowfant Club is a Cleveland, Ohio, bibliophile and book collector's club for men founded in 1892. It also issues limited editions of special interest books, and operated a bindery from 1909-1913. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, committee reports, financial records, membership records, speeches, manuscripts, printed matter, yearbooks, meeting notices, blueprints, architectural drawings, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and material on bookmaking and collecting. | | | | Call #: | MS 3571 | | | | Extent: | 29.10 linear feet (70 containers and 1 oversize package) | | | | Subjects: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | Book clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Book collectors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Book collecting -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Book industries and trade. | Men -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | The Rowfant Club collects: books in their various capacities to please the mind : a selection of books, objects and ephemera on the art of the book collected by the Rowfant Club since its founding in 1892 : 28 August, 2005-1 September, 2005
| | | | Creator: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | | | | | Novak, David Alan. | | | | Publication: | Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio,MMV [2005] | | | | Notes: | "This catalogue to the exhibition The Rowfant Club collects has been printed in various sizes of Garamond (W1) and printed in an edition of five hundred copies"--Page 17. | | | | Call #: | ocn230936842 | | | | Extent: | viii, 18 pages ; 28 cm | | | | Subjects: | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Library -- Exhibitions | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Art collections -- Exhibitions | Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | Art museums | Libraries | Exhibition catalogs
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