Participating institutions of the amateur (bibliophile) book series of the Transylvanian Belletristic Guild between 1924–1944

Abstract

At the end of March 1924, six Cluj-Napoca journalists founded the publishing house Transylvanian Belletristic Guild. They set themselves the goal of publishing the new literary works of post-Trianon Transylvanian Hungarian writers and poets, arranged in series. After presenting the characteristics of amateur books, this paper takes stock of and  publishes Transylvanian (Romanian) and foreign, mostly Hungarian participating institutions. A cheap edition of the book series was also made for subscribers. The list of subscribers in Hungary is enumerated in a separate, the so-called Golden Book. Some of the institutions included in it can also be found among the supporting members. By comparing the institutional customers of the two editions of the book series and supplementing them with private individuals connected to the institutions, we can get an interesting and valuable picture of the organisational customers of the books of the Transylvanian Belletristic Guild.