Title: Noel Lawson Lewis Collection (VMF098), 1935-1936
Administrative/Biographical History
Noel Lawson Lewis (1876 - ) wrote The Sculpture of Max Kalish (1933) and The Second Greatest Man (1925) with Samuel Johnson. He was also secretary of the Rowfant Club. The Rowfant Club of Cleveland, Ohio was organized in February, 1892, by a group of about twenty professional and business men for the purpose of getting together collectors and lovers of books, and also to publish, from time to time, privately printed editions of worth-while books. The moving spirit in the group was Paul Lemperly, whose admiration for Frederick Locker, England's leading book collector and authority on rare books, caused him to have the club named Rowfant after Locker's home at Crawley, Sussex.
