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  • FABS 19th Century Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Convivial conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Hosted by Bill Bryson. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • Princeton’s Influential Bollingen Series

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Brigitta van Rheinberg This talk will explore how Princeton University Press's Bollingen Series, founded in 1940 and now being rereleased, published hundreds of works by the likes of Coleridge, Jung, and Nabokov and shaped American intellectual thought and cultural life. The Bollingen series, founded by Paul and Mary Mellon […]

  • The Rendell Lecture: Meaning and Magic in Handwritten Material

    Sponsored by the Grolier Club With Glen Miranker In this lecture, Glen Miranker will discuss both the intangible values and the tangible insights that are inherent in some of the holograph manuscripts, letters, notebooks, and marginalia from his collection of Sherlock Holmes material. “When authors put pen to paper, their handwritten text—plus insertions, strike-throughs, and […]

  • Incunabula of the Second Printing Revolution

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Jeremy Norman will lecture on the complex parameters defining incunabula of the second printing revolution, a period marked by the adopted of mechanized technologies in book production. A series of overlapping innovations in steam power, papermaking, typesetting, and bookbinding throughout the nineteenth century transformed the rate and quality of book […]

  • James P. Keenan on Bookplates: The Art of This Century

    Sponsored by The Caxton Club Our speaker will briefly discuss antique bookplates, but his emphasis will be on the contemporary art form and the fact that bookplates are in use worldwide today! Bookplates are used to mark pride in book ownership and to facilitate exchange to build collections and global friendships. James P. Keenan has […]

  • The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy: John R. Freeman and San Francisco’s Yosemite Water Supply

    Book Club of California

    The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is widely seen as a watershed event in American environmental history. Passionately opposed by naturalist John Muir and his ardent supporters, the massive undertaking succeeded largely through the efforts of John R. Freeman, one of the most important, influential, and politically adroit engineers of the […]

  • FABS Bindings Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Join the FABS Bindings group for presentations and discussion about the art and craft of bindings. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • FABS Living With Books Zoom Group: Money and Provenance

    Sponsored by FABS Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. This month's topics: (1) What role does money play in book collecting? (2) Do we collect provenance? Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • Digger Do: Excavating a Social Movement Through Its Print Ephemera

    Sponsored by the Book Club of California. How do we uncover the arc of a social movement through its broadsides, street sheets, mimeographed leaflets, and print ephemera? In this illustrated talk, Eric Noble will explore the Digger movement of 1960s San Francisco — a radical network of free stores, free food, and free theater — […]

  • Jessica Spring on From Printers Row to Parts Unknown

    Sponsored by The Caxton Club. February Evening Program Book artist and letterpress printer Jessica Spring will share strange-but-true tales of her journey from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, guided by wise mentors – and some villains – who continue to inspire another climb into the press bed. Spring began her interest in typography as a […]

  • Edward Potten and Elizabeth Savage on Carbon-dating “Medieval” Woodblocks: A New Approach to the History of Book Collecting

    Sponsored by The Caxton Club. February Evening Program In this program, Ed Potten and Elizabeth Savage will introduce Caxton Club members to an entirely new way of understanding woodblocks: as blocks of wood, which are organic materials that can be carbon-dated. The talk will introduce carbon-dating in book collector-friendly terms, survey our proof-of-concept project to […]