Grolier de Servières, Jean, vicomte d'Aguisy

Grolier de Servières, Jean, vicomte d'Aguisy

▪ French bibliophile
born 1489/90, Lyon, France
died Oct. 22, 1565, Paris

      French bibliophile and patron of bookbinders (bookbinding).

      Grolier was educated in Paris, served as the treasurer and receiver general of the French army in Italy, and in 1534 was named ambassador to Pope Clement VII. By 1547 he had become one of the four treasurers of France. Grolier became a patron of Aldus Manutius (Manutius, Aldus, the Elder), founder of the Aldine Press and one of the world's first publishers. As a patron of Manutius and many other artists, Grolier contributed to the growing French bookbinding trade, helping it become an equal of the already established and renowned Italian trade.

      Grolier's splendid library of approximately 3,000 volumes remained as a complete collection for more than 100 years after his death, having been neither sold nor dispersed until 1675. Grolier's books were richly bound in morocco or calf decorated with intricate designs in gold and colours. Some 400 of these Grolier bindings have survived, and each is marked distinctly with two Latin phrases. On the upper cover of all Grolier books is written “Io. Grolierii et amicorum” (“For use by Jean Grolier and his friends”). On the lower cover of his books is written “Portia mea, Domine, sit in terra viventium” (“O Lord, may my portion be in the land of the living”).

      The Grolier Club of New York City was founded in Jean Grolier's honour in 1884.

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