Robert Hoe III

Robert Hoe III (1839–1909) was an American businessman and producer of printing press equipment. He succeeded Richard March Hoe at the headship of the Hoe firm, which continued its preeminence among printing-press makers. He was one of the organizers and first president of the Grolier Club, the well-known New York organization for the promotion of bookmaking as an art. He was an extensive collector of rare books and manuscripts as well as silver, miniatures, and other art objects, his collections at the time of his death being valued at several million dollars. The catalogues of his library were unique and valuable from both a typographical and bibliographical standpoint. He edited Maberly's "Print Collector" (1880).

Literature

Consult a brief and fragmentary biographical sketch by Gilliss in the "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", volume XLI (New York, 1910).

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