With Deft Knife and Paste: The Extra-Illustrated Books of John M. Wing

Abstract

There is one member of the Fraternity of Book Collectors who has of late years rather fallen in the estimation of his brother Bibliophiles. This knight of the shears and paste jar… is known in bookman’s parlance as the Grangerite. The title never has been understood to indicate exalted bibliophilic rank, and now, alas! the individual who bears it appears to be upon the point of losing all honorary distinction whatever in the little world of the book collector.—W. L. Andrews, Of the Extra-Illustration of BooksJohn Mansir Wing, one of Chicago’s great library benefactors, was an unrepentant Grangerite ...