What is "grolier"

Grolier \Gro"lier`\, n. The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.

Grolier binding, a book binding decorated with a pattern imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean Grolier, and bearing his name and motto.

Grolier design or Grolier school, the pattern of interlacing bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls of slender gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the designs on Jean Grolier's book bindings.

Grolier is one of the largest U.S. publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana (1945), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), and numerous incarnations of a CD-ROM encyclopedia (1986–2003).

Grolier is an educational publishing company known for its presence in school libraries. It has a strong presence among parents of children under six years old, the target of Grolier's direct mail-to-the-home business.

In June 2000 Grolier became part of Scholastic Corporation, which now maintains Grolier Online.

Grolier was an American publisher, now an imprint of Scholastic.

Grolier may also refer to:

• Jean Grolier de Servières, viscount d'Aguisy (1479–1565), Treasurer-General of France and a bibliophile
• Grolier Club, a private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City, United States
• Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Old Grolier Clubo or 29 East 32nd Street, a building in New York City, United States
• Grolier Codex, a pre-Columbian Maya book of disputed authenticity