The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barba꧂ra and Ira Lipman

LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB

A nearly complete set of the publications of the Limited Editions Cl🌄ub, 1929–1979

505 works in 652 volumes, various sizes, in original publisher's bindings. Generally very good to fine condi♏tion; very occasional rubbing, chipping, or fading, some volumes lacking original slipcases or boxes. A complete inventory of the lot is available on request from the Books and Manuscripts Department.

The Limited Editions Club was founded in 1929 by George Macy to publish, for subscribers, finely🐓 made, illustrated editions of classics of world literature and thought. The Club was the longest lasting and most successful of several similar ventures to bring fine book-making to a wider audience. Each volume was issued in an edition of either 1,500 or 2,000 copies.

The Lipman Collection includes the books from the golden period 𝄹of the Limited Editions Club, when it was under the direction of its founder, his wife, and their son. Among the many illustrators, authors, and designers who signed the Limited Editions Club books are Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Arthur Rackham, Eric Gill, Bruce Rogers, Frederic Goudy, W. A. Dwiggins, Rockwell Kent, Edward Steichen, Giovanni Mardersteig, Grant Wood, John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Edw☂ard Weston, and Robert Frost.

Of the first forty-five series of LEC publications, forty, including the first six, are absolutely complete. Series 6, 10, and 15 each lack one volume; series 11 lacks the Bruce Rogers set of Shakespeare; and series 45 includes the books w🅷ith the publication date of 1979 only, not those dated 1980. In addition, the Collection lacks two "special publications" issued in 1940 out♒side of the regular annual subscription series.