Grolier, Jean, a famous bibliophile, whose library was dispersed in 1675; the bindings of the books being ornamented with geometric patterns, have given name to bindings in this style; they bore the inscription, “Io. Grolieri et Amicorum” (the property of Jean Grolier and his friends).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Grodno * Gröningen