Benjamin Albritton on California Bindings

Sponsored by FABS

The FABS Bindings Zoom Group welcomes Benjamin Albritton for a talk on California Bindings.

Stanford University Special Collections has many exceptional items in its care and Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator, has selected a group of volumes related to the development of fine binding practice in California in the first half of the 20th century. The particular focus of this presentation will be two groups of fine bindings in Stanford’s collections: binders associated with The Bookbinders’ Guild of California first exhibition in 1902; and bindings displayed at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. These two collections provide a snapshot of binding practices and influences at two key periods in the development of the craft in California, and Ben is eager to share these examples with us and encourage a dialogue about how to make these and other binding-related materials in Stanford’s collections more accessible to the broader community of practitioners and researchers.

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