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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: Singing Books [Music Manuscript Bindings]
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nGuest Presenter: Lilla Vekerdy\, Head of the Special Collections Department\, Smithsonian Institution Libraries\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society\nA live presentation followed by a Q & A with presenter Lilla Vekerdy Title: How Can Book Bindings Sing?\nPresentation Description:\nHow Can Book Bindings Sing? will examine Renaissance books bound in fragments of medieval music manuscripts. These “singing bindings” are hundreds of years older than the printed text blocks inside them\, and the texts are on mathematics\, physics\, or astronomy and absolutely not on music. How is that possible?\nLilla Vekerdy\, Head & Curator of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives\, will shed light on the peculiarities of these unique volumes\, held in the rare book collection of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.\nBiography:\nLilla Vekerdy has been the head of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives since 2008\, where she oversees rare materials in 16 library research centers\, and also serves as the curator of Physical Sciences Rare Books in The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. She earned Master’s degrees in Literature & Linguistics as well as in Library Sciences in Budapest\, Hungary in 1984\, and completed her doctoral coursework in Medieval and Renaissance History at Saint Louis University in St. Louis\, Missouri in 2005. Her research interest and publications are in the history of science and medicine\, as well as in rare book and manuscript studies\, and often cover the overlay of both realms. \nRegister here: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GGFhG_DcTvCQW6u4hSV1eg
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-singing-books-music-manuscript-bindings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era: Natural Philosophy Images from Manuscript to Print
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group meets the second Monday of the month for presentations and discussion of printed materials before 1800. This month noted optics collector David DiLaura will speak on the transition from manuscript to print of illustrations dealing with geometry and natural philosophy\, using examples from his collection. All are welcome. \n“Images in natural philosophy books: From manuscripts to printing”\nImages were an essential aspect of geometry and natural philosophy books in the manuscript era. They were not ornament; for in many cases the text could not be understood without them. In the transition to printing\, technical images posed new problems for printers. Images varied from manuscript to manuscript. The details needed to be correct and\, in many cases\, could be judged only if the text was understood. A compositor\, however skillful\, was not enough. Woodcuts were necessary\, adding cost\, uncertainty\, and dependence on external craftsmen. In some cases\, the image tradition was degraded until the widespread use of copper plate etchings in the mid 16th century. \nFor a link and to be added to the mailing list for this group\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-dilaura-on-illustrations-from-manuscript-to-print/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T190000
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SUMMARY:The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California. \nWith some 400 members\, the San Francisco-based California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century. In her book The California Camera Club\, Carolin Görgen recaptures the lost history of this community—both women and men—and their crucial contribution to shaping the cultural imagination of California and the American West as a photographic territory. \nAlthough the club played a decisive role in advancing the careers of Ansel Adams and other “big names” of American photography\, its most significant legacy lies in fostering collaborative outdoor practices. In telling the story of these largely unknown photographers\, a new perspective on American photography and its collective dimension is revealed. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Carolin Görgen\, author and Associate Professor of American Studies\, Sorbonne Université\, Paris. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-california-camera-club-collective-visions-in-the-making-of-the-american-west/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
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SUMMARY:After Oscar [Wilde]: The Legacy of a Scandal
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nMerlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker\, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Oscar Wilde’s posthumous reputation. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-after-oscar-the-legacy-of-a-scandal-tickets-1978912426338?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/after-oscar-wilde-the-legacy-of-a-scandal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T183000
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SUMMARY:Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nWhat does it mean to imagine the American West through Black experience? For too long\, popular culture\, from Hollywood Westerns to novels\, music\, and television\, has erased or distorted Black presence in the West\, leaving us with an incomplete story of American identity. Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture brings those histories back into focus. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Sara L. Gallagher explores how Black writers\, filmmakers\, and performers have reimagined the Western landscape in ways that challenge dominant myths about race\, land\, and belonging. Moving across literature\, film\, and music\, she examines how figures ranging from Oscar Micheaux to contemporary creators like Beyonce have reshaped what we think the “West” looks like\, sounds like\, and means. \nThe “Black West” is more than a geographic space\, it is a cultural and imaginative terrain that reveals hidden histories of migration\, labor\, homesteading\, and community-building. At the same time\, it offers new perspectives on familiar genres\, from the Western film to the jazz archive. This presentation will highlight how Black artists and thinkers have unsettled the frontier myth\, opening up conversations about power\, resistance\, and the legacies of race in American culture. \nA virtual presentation by Sarah Gallagher\, author and Professor of Liberal Studies\, Durham College\, Oshawa\, Ontario\, Canada. \nTo register for this virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/black-wests-reshaping-race-and-place-in-popular-culture/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T193000
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SUMMARY:Mexico City's Avant-Garde Librería de Cristal Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nWith Luis Fernando Bañuelos\n\n\n\nNYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal\, Mexico’s first everything bookstore. In a long\, sinuous\, marble\, glass\, and steel building downtown\, plastered with billboards\, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof\, it offered leather-bound collections\, textbooks\, children’s literature\, pornographic paperbacks\, dictionaries\, literary magazines\, titles by popular romance authors and those of Alexander von Humboldt and John Steinbeck\, as well as coffee\, plus paintings by renowned artists. The enigmatic\, contradictory store was a monumental palace for Mexico’s lettered elites\, an extravagant attempt to bring mass commercial culture to print matter in a semi-illiterate country\, an attempt to democratize knowledge and culture by making them accessible to all social classes\, the remnant of an obsolete\, pre-industrial belletristic culture… The lecture will explore the store’s cultural history through publications\, films\, first-hand testimonies\, photographs\, and advertising. In a post-revolutionary\, developing country such as Mexico\, what happens to print culture in general\, and literature in particular\, what do they gain or lose\, when entangled with commercial culture? \nLuis Fernando Bañuelos is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. His research interests include print culture\, book history\, sociology of literature and publishing\, and the history of literary criticism. His dissertation explores Mexican literature from the 1920s to the 1970s in relation to the publishing industry’s rise. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-mexico-citys-avant-garde-libreria-de-cristal-bookstore-tickets-1978438930098?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/mexico-citys-avant-garde-libreria-de-cristal-bookstore/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T203000
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CREATED:20260313T111348Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: "Oops" Moments and Physical vs. Electronic Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nDear Friends in the Republic of Books\, \nLiving with Books is a discussion group of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies.\nEach month\, we choose a couple of bibliophilic topics for open (and civil) discussion. \nThe next meeting of FABS Living with Books will be on Tuesday\, Mar 24\, 7:00 EDT\nThe topics for discussion will be: \n1.Oops!\nMistakes we have made collecting or buying books.\nWhat were your best goofs? \n2. Electronic Reading vs. Physical Books\nWhich do you prefer? How do you balance? What helps? \nPlease join us if you think you might find such a discussions interesting. \nWith best regards\,\nReid \nFor a link please contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-oops-moments-and-physical-vs-electronic-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260302T122446Z
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: NYC Municipal Archives
DESCRIPTION:Manuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society \nDate: Monday\, March 16 @ 8pm EST\nGuest Presenter: Kenneth Cobb\, Assistant Commissioner\, New York City Department of Records & Information Services\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society\nA live presentation followed by a Q & A with presenter Kenneth Cobb \nTitle: \nThe New York City Municipal Archives \nOverview: \nNew York City bureaucrats have been creating records that document its government since the first Dutch settlers established a colony here in 1624. The records now total more than 250\,000 cubic feet and are preserved in the Municipal Archives\, one of the largest archival repositories in North America. Mr. Cobb will present an illustrated review of the holdings which include manuscripts\, photographs\, ledgers\, maps\, and plans from numerous municipal departments and functions such as the mayor\, courts\, police\, health\, parks\, finance and education. \nRegister: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8esv2eBzRSyMF7U50mW32g\nPresenter: \nKenneth R. Cobb has been associated with the Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) for more than 46 years. Cobb served as Director of the Municipal Archives from 1990 to 2005 when he was appointed Assistant Commissioner at DORIS. Cobb received an M.A. in American History at Columbia University in 1978. \nIn 2018 he received the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York outstanding Archival Achievement award\, and in 2023 he won a Sloan Public Service Award. Cobb is a native of Poughkeepsie\, New York.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T183000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
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SUMMARY:Koreatown Los Angeles: Immigration\, Race\, and the “American Dream”
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nThis talk is based on the book Koreatown\, Los Angeles: Immigration\, Race\, and the “American Dream\,” which delves into the social and cultural history of Korean Americans in Los Angeles\, focusing on the period from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. The presentation will explore the argument that building Koreatown was an urgent objective for Korean immigrants and US-born Koreans\, serving simultaneously as a vital economic base and a profound emotional and social anchor. It will examine how figures defined as “place entrepreneurs\,” such as Sonia Suk and Hi Duk Lee\, spearheaded the community’s development from a modest cluster of businesses into a thriving\, recognized enclave. Their entrepreneurial achievements\, lauded in publications as proof that the “American Dream is Alive and Well in Koreatown\,” underscored the irony of success achieved during an era of diminishing opportunities for others. \nA virtual presentation by Shelley Lee\, author and W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of American Studies\, History\, and Humanities\, Brown University. \nTo register for this online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/koreatown-los-angeles-immigration-race-and-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
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SUMMARY:Michelle Margolis on History and Highlights of the Collection of Jewish Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nHorace Walpole wrote a letter in which he coined the word serendipity. \nThe Royal and Ancient Gold Club of St Andrews got on course. \nA 22-year-old George Washington leads an ambush that triggers the French and Indian War. \nLouis XVI is born. \nWhat will become Columbia University is chartered in New York. \nThe year is 1754 and the Columbia library begins – right from the beginning – to collect rare Hebraica and Judaica materials. \nToday that collection has grown to include an amazing array of manuscripts\, incunabula\, sixteenth-century books\, and much\, much more. \nMichelle Margolis\, Lecturer in History and Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies\, will give us a rare glimpse of the collection’s treasures\, as she shares its story and illuminates its highlights. Her generously illustrated talk will reveal materials of great beauty\, historical importance\, and scholarship. \nAs the great ad campaign from the 1960s reminded us\, you don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish Rye … or to enjoy seeing a remarkable collection of Jewish books and documents. Step up to the counter and register for this Zoom only program today! \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/michelle-margolis-on-history-and-highlights-of-the-collection-of-jewish-books-and-manuscripts-at-columbia-university/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260128T143822Z
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SUMMARY:Wonders of the East: Medieval Belief and Making Monsters in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nIn the Middle Ages\, monsters were of great interest to artists\, authors\, and theologians. They appear in all visual media and all textual genres. They were\, to their creators\, both serious subjects of contemplation and fun entertainment. This talk will focus on a particular set of medieval monsters known as the Wonders of the East\, a series of fantastic peoples\, beasts\, plants\, and landscapes that was especially popular in medieval England\, where they appear on the edges of world maps and in the margins of devotional books\, as well as in three surviving manuscripts\, all heavily illustrated\, where they are given pride of place. This talk will consider where such monsters were located\, how they were constructed\, and what sort of work they were designed to do for their intended audiences. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Asa Mittman\, author and Professor of Art & Art History\, California State University\, Chico. \nTo register for this virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/wonders-of-the-east-medieval-belief-and-making-monsters-in-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T193000
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SUMMARY:Presenting Jane: Showing and Sharing Jane Austen in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \n“Presenting Jane” honors the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth through an exploration of the challenges\, discoveries\, and new ways a 21st-century audience has encountered the woman and her work. In this ATBL-Book Club of California event\, collector and curator Mary Crawford alongside Professor and Library Director Kirsten J. Leuner will discuss both Mary’s innovative Austen exhibition\, hosted at the Grolier Club in December 2025\, and will lead attendees on a guided tour through the British Library’s first edition facsimile of Jane Austen’s famed Pride & Prejudice (1813)\, issued by Rizzoli USA. The deluxe facsimile edition of Pride & Prejudice includes not only the text separated into its originally distributed multiple volumes\, but also contains key archival documents connected to the text and Austen’s life from the British Library’s collections. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Mary Crawford\, collector\, curator\, trustee of The Grolier Club and the Bibliographical Society of America and Kirstyn J. Leuner\, Associate Professor of eighteenth-century British Literature\, Santa Clara University and Director of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing \n**Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for The British Library. \nTo register for the virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/presenting-jane-showing-and-sharing-jane-austen-in-the-21st-century/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T183000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260127T202306Z
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SUMMARY:Catenary Books: The Making of a Narrative Bookplate Series
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nWith Kristy Caldwell\n\n\n\nIllustrator Kristy Caldwell will share the process of creating Catenary Books\, a series of six narratively connected bookplates developed during her 2025 William H. Helfand Fellowship at the Grolier Club Library. \nKristy Caldwell is a New York-based illustrator and an assistant professor of illustration at Queens College\, CUNY. She has illustrated more than a dozen children’s books\, including Flowers for Sarajevo\, a 2017 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids\, and co-founded the experimental journal Carrier Pigeon: Illustrated Fiction and Fine Art. Previously\, she served as archivist at Castelli Gallery; recently\, she wrote an essay for the gallery remembering appropriation artist Richard Pettibone. Her illustration work often combines digital tools with eclectic art supplies such as vintage fountain pens\, conical nibs\, mouth atomizers\, and rainbow pencils. For more information: kristycaldwell.com \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-catenary-books-the-making-of-a-narrative-bookplate-series-tickets-1978020218721?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/catenary-books-the-making-of-a-narrative-bookplate-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260221T160822Z
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SUMMARY:Mexico City's Avant-Garde Librería de Cristal Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nWith Luis Fernando Bañuelos\n\n\n\nNYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal\, Mexico’s first everything bookstore. In a long\, sinuous\, marble\, glass\, and steel building downtown\, plastered with billboards\, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof\, it offered leather-bound collections\, textbooks\, children’s literature\, pornographic paperbacks\, dictionaries\, literary magazines\, titles by popular romance authors and those of Alexander von Humboldt and John Steinbeck\, as well as coffee\, plus paintings by renowned artists. The enigmatic\, contradictory store was a monumental palace for Mexico’s lettered elites\, an extravagant attempt to bring mass commercial culture to print matter in a semi-illiterate country\, an attempt to democratize knowledge and culture by making them accessible to all social classes\, the remnant of an obsolete\, pre-industrial belletristic culture… The lecture will explore the store’s cultural history through publications\, films\, first-hand testimonies\, photographs\, and advertising. In a post-revolutionary\, developing country such as Mexico\, what happens to print culture in general\, and literature in particular\, what do they gain or lose\, when entangled with commercial culture? \nLuis Fernando Bañuelos is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. His research interests include print culture\, book history\, sociology of literature and publishing\, and the history of literary criticism. His dissertation explores Mexican literature from the 1920s to the 1970s in relation to the publishing industry’s rise. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/mexico-citys-avant-garde-libreria-de-cristal-bookstore-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin your host Reid Byers and the gang for discussion of the pleasures and challenges of the private library. For a link\, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-9/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T183000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
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SUMMARY:A Visual Journey: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nIn 1870 at age 33\, Sara Plummer Lemmon left the East Coast and moved west to Santa Barbara\, where she taught herself botany and established the town’s first library. Ten years later she married botanist John Gill Lemmon\, and together the two discovered hundreds of new plant species\, many of them illustrated by Sara\, an accomplished artist. She and JG traveled throughout the Southwest\, often alone but sometimes with such friends\, including John Muir and Clara Barton. Sara also found time to work as a journalist and as an activist in women’s suffrage and forest conservation. Her inspiring story is one of resilience\, determination\, and courage. \nAuthor Wynne Brown will present the remarkable story of Sara Plummer Lemmon and provide an update on the preservation of Sara’s remarkable artwork — and how her own research continues to evolve. \nA virtual presentation by Wynne Brown\, writer\, editor\, and graphic designer. \nTo register for this virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-visual-journey-sara-plummer-lemmons-life-of-science-and-art/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260127T204612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T204612Z
UID:3108-1771529400-1771533000@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for convivial conversation on all things bibliophilic and 19th century! \nFor a link contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-17/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260218T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260218T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260106T004956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T004956Z
UID:3074-1771439400-1771443000@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Edward Potten and Elizabeth Savage on Carbon-dating “Medieval” Woodblocks: A New Approach to the History of Book Collecting
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nFebruary Evening Program \n \nIn 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 carbon-date dubiously “medieval” and “early modern” woodblocks\, and explore new evidence that they are instead antiquarian inventions. They are not fakes\, intended to deceive. Instead\, they shed light on a long-forgotten way that early book collectors explored and honored print heritage by commissioning new “old” woodblocks. \nEdward Potten has published widely on book and library history\, with a particular focus on the fifteenth century. He was formerly Keeper of Printed Books at the John Rylands Library\, and Head of Rare Books\, Joint Head of Special Collections\, and Associate Director\, Special Collections and External Relations\, at Cambridge University Library. He is currently the Principal Consultant on an AHRC/DFG Project\, a collaboration between the University of Manchester\, Johannes Gutenberg University\, Mainz\, and the University of Erlangen. \nDr. Elizabeth Savage FSA FRHistS is Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications\, School of Advanced Study\, and Head of Academic Research Engagement\, Senate House Library\, University of London. Her books include Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum\, Printing Colour 1400–1700\, and Printing Colour 1700–1830. She curates and contributes to exhibitions about print heritage\, and has convened book history courses. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/edward-potten-and-elizabeth-savage-on-carbon-dating-medieval-woodblocks-a-new-approach-to-the-history-of-book-collecting/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T150000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260127T202902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T202902Z
UID:3104-1771077600-1771081200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Valentine's Day Celebration and Talk: Cassandra Austen
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nWith Janine Barchas\n\n\n\nCassandra Austen played an important role in the legacy of her novelist sister. Janine Barchas (one of the three curators of the Grolier’s Paper Jane exhibition) will talk about things learned from mounting the exhibition\, share some of her research about Cassandra\, as well as dare to make a few predictions about what’s next for Jane Austen fans. \nJanine Barchas holds the Chancellor’s Council Centennial Professorship in the Book Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. She has authored three books about Jane Austen\, including The Novel Life of Jane Austen\, a graphic biography with illustrator Isabel Greenberg. \n\nREGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-valentines-day-celebration-and-talk-cassandra-austen-tickets-1978007319138?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \n\n\n\nFounded in 1884\, the Grolier Club is America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts. Named for Jean Grolier (1489 or 90-1565)\, the Renaissance collector renowned for sharing his library with friends\, the Club’s objective is to promote “the study\, collecting\, and appreciation of books and works on paper.” Through the concerted efforts of an international network of over eight hundred members—book and print collectors\, antiquarian book dealers\, librarians\, designers\, fine printers\, binders\, and other artisans—the Grolier Club pursues this mission through its library\, its public exhibitions and lectures\, and its long and distinguished series of publications.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/valentines-day-celebration-and-talk-cassandra-austen/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260128T142317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T143015Z
UID:3114-1770984000-1770987600@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Lindsay DiCuirci on Traps for the Young: Comstockery and Its Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \n \nThere’s nothing like a good moral panic about how young people are spending their time to get the blood boiling – whether it’s the presence of a pool table (Trouble\, right here in River City!)\, corrupting comic books\, or the perils of Snapchat. \nThat’s why Anthony Comstock’s 1883 conduct book Traps for the Young burned through five editions and rang alarm bells that echo today. Its legacy continues to shape censorship battles\, contentious school board meetings\, and confrontations in libraries. One First Amendment scholar suggests that Comstock is the individual who has most profoundly affected American culture. \nDr. Lindsay DiCuirci of the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County will be revealing the story of Comstock’s crusade. A prize winning author\, Lindsay directs the English Honors program at UMBC. She is a member of the American Antiquarian Society and a sought-after speaker across a range of bookish topics. \nWhether you used to hide a copy of something banned in that D.H. Lawrence text you were supposed to be reading\, searched for comics that didn’t feature the Approved By the Comics Code Authority seal\, or thought a game of pool was a perfectly swell way to pass an evening in Iowa\, it’s time you were Comstocked. Register for this event today! \nThis is a Zoom only presentation\, to register click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/lindsay-dicuirci-on-traps-for-the-young-comstockery-and-its-legacies/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260211T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260211T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260106T004422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T155916Z
UID:3070-1770834600-1770838200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Jessica Spring: From Printers Row to Parts Unknown
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFebruary Evening Program \n \nBook 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. \nSpring began her interest in typography as a phototypesetter in the 1980s working for the college newspaper and learning graphic design. After graduation\, she continued typesetting\, working at the last typesetting shop on Printer’s Row\, then at the Chicago Reader. Spring co-founded a graphic design firm\, and for over a decade\, offered letterpress printing while also serving predominantly nonprofit clients. As her interest in book arts grew\, she attended graduate school at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts and founded Springtide Press in 1999. \nBy 2003\, Spring moved to Tacoma\, Washington. She taught book arts for decades at Pacific Lutheran University and continues to teach workshops around the country. A continued focus has been researching historic type composition\, which resulted in the invention of Daredevil Furniture to help other printers set type in circles\, curves\, and angles. Collaborations are a vital part of her work\, including many years co-producing the Dead Feminists series and co-authoring Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color. \nThe projects at Springtide Press include artists books\, broadsides\, and ephemera\, and can be found in collections around the country and abroad. Small finely-crafted editions and one-of-a-kind books explore historical topics\, popular culture\, and typography from a unique perspective. Spring’s work focuses on amplifying voices needing to be heard\, telling stories in a new way\, and ultimately\, preservation through production. \nOur shop motto\, “where we always print damp” recognizes the Pacific Northwest as a fine place to print\, where the damp climate helps make a good impression. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jessica-spring-on-from-printers-row-to-parts-unknown/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260127T201424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T201424Z
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SUMMARY:RGME Symposium at The Grolier Club: Transformations and Renewals
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Research Group for Manuscript Evidence and The Grolier Club \n\nWith Mildred Budny\, Beppy Owen\, John T. McQuillen\, Reid Byers\, Richard Kopley\, Mark Samuels Lasner\, and Mary Crawford\n\n\n\nFriends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence\, a Princeton-based 501(c)(3) educational organization\, will visit the Grolier Club for an in-person/hybrid ‘Roundtable’. In lightning talks\, several Club members will discuss a curated selection of books\, manuscripts\, and prints on the RGME’s 2026 organizational theme of “Transformations and Renewals.” Open to the public\, this event will be live-streamed and will offer book-signings for Club member guides who have recently published works discussed. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-transformations-and-renewals-tickets-1978004310138?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/rgme-symposium-at-the-grolier-club-transformations-and-renewals/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260203T155229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T155511Z
UID:3136-1770667200-1770667200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Constructing Scientific Eminence in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nThe Library of Congress holds more than 12\,000 manuscript collections documenting a broad range of American history and culture\, among them around 1\,000 collections in the history of science and technology. Acquired as part of a broader collecting program targeting “nationally eminent Americans\,” the Library’s science and technology acquisitions have been deeply shaped by evolving standards for scientific prestige. \nIn this talk Dr. Levy will discuss the history of science and technology manuscript collecting at the Library of Congress\, and will suggest that science and technology-collecting repositories can benefit from deeper investigations into how notions of professional eminence have shaped their collections. He will review some of the Library’s efforts to document the nation’s science and technology history\, explore collecting gaps left as scientific labor became increasingly professionalized\, well-resourced\, and politically powerful\, and describe staff efforts to fill those gaps. \nDate: Monday\, February 9\, 8PM EST\nGuest Presenter: Josh Levy\, Historian of Science and Technology\, Manuscript Division\, The Library of Congress\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore \nPresenter\nJosh Levy serves as historian of science and technology at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. There he oversees collections that include the papers of Samuel F.B. Morse\, Matthew Fontaine Maury\, Alexander Graham Bell\, the Wright Brothers\, Sigmund and Anna Freud\, J. Robert Oppenheimer\, Carl Sagan\, Dr. Ruth Westheimer\, and Gladys West. He has published on topics ranging from agricultural history and the history of nutrition to Native Pacific history and the history of mathematics. He has taught history and indigenous studies courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, University of South Florida\, and College of Micronesia-FSM. He holds a Ph.D. in modern U.S. history from the University of Illinois and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School. \nRegistration\nRegister for the next Manuscript Monday.  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pO0T610uQ0GYxlqDSAtebw
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/constructing-scientific-eminence-in-the-library-of-congress-manuscript-division/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260127T204438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T204438Z
UID:3106-1770665400-1770669000@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era: Martha Driver on Collecting Erasmus
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \n“Collecting Erasmus”\nMartha will share a brief bio of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536) and provide short descriptions of several Erasmus volumes in her collection. These include the first edition of Erasmus’s In Novum Testamentum Annotationes (1542) which has been heavily censored by a very assiduous member of the counter-Reformation\, the Colloquies (printed by Charlotte Guillard\, 1519)\, the Adages (printed by Gryphius\, 1550)\, the Apophthegmatum (1641)\, and two editions of the Praise of Folly\, one in English (1668) and one in French (1728). Along the way\, she will discuss Erasmus’s friendships with powerful people\, not the least of whom were printers and the painter\, Hans Holbein the Younger\, who promoted the work of Erasmus and helped to make him famous.\n\nFor a link\, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org\n\nMartha Westcott Driver is Distinguished Professor of English at Pace University in New York City and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. A co-founder of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history\, she writes about illustration from manuscript to print and manuscript and book production. In addition to publishing some 80 articles in these areas\, she has edited thirty-two journals\, including the Journal of the Early Book Society. Her books include The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England (published by the British Library in 2001)\, An Index of Images in English MSS\, with Michael Orr (2007)\, Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell\, with Veronica O’Mara (2013)\, and John Gower in Manuscript and Early Printed Books\, edited with Derek Pearsall and Robert F. Yeager (2020). She chairs the Early Book Society (earlybooksociety.org) and serves on the executive committee and board of the American Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland (americanpatrons.org) as well as the visiting committee of the Morgan Library & Museum\, and the American Trust for the British Library (https://atbl.us/leadership/).
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-martha-driver-on-collecting-erasmus/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260202T191500
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20260106T005755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T005755Z
UID:3076-1770055200-1770059700@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Digger Do: Excavating a Social Movement Through Its Print Ephemera
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California.\n\nHow 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 — through the lens of its printed traces.\n\nDrawing from the Digger Archives and firsthand accounts\, the presentation will examine how the Diggers used print not just to document\, but to provoke\, invite\, and enact. From the surrealist tones of the early Digger Papers to the communal publishing of Kaliflower\, we’ll consider how typography\, anonymity\, and distribution shaped the movement’s ethos.\n\nThis talk will also reflect on the lineage of radical print culture\, connecting the Diggers to earlier traditions of pamphleteering\, underground publishing\, and the poetic politics of the commons — offering a bibliographic journey through a movement that challenged the very notion of authorship\, ownership\, and permanence. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Eric Noble\, writer\, historian\, and keeper of the Digger Archive
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/digger-do-excavating-a-social-movement-through-its-print-ephemera/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20251230T122029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T122559Z
UID:3055-1769626800-1769632200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group: Money and Provenance
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin 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
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/3055/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20251230T122226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T122257Z
UID:3057-1769455800-1769632200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin the FABS Bindings group for presentations and discussion about the art and craft of bindings. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20251228T162934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251228T162934Z
UID:3047-1769446800-1769450400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy: John R. Freeman and San Francisco’s Yosemite Water Supply
DESCRIPTION: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 Progressive Era. In The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy\, Donald C. Jackson focuses on Freeman to offer a nuanced account of how the City of San Francisco won the right to transform the bucolic valley into a municipal water supply reservoir that\, a century later\, continues to serve millions of Bay Area residents. \nCentral to Freeman’s work for San Francisco from 1910 to 1913 was his design of a high-pressure aqueduct projected to deliver 400 million gallons of water per day to the Bay Area and generate more than 150\,000 horsepower of electricity. Beyond crafting an extensively illustrated 421-page report detailing his design\, he also worked—and succeeded—as a political advocate lobbying for congressional approval of the project. Jackson draws on a wealth of correspondence\, reports\, and other documents\, including congressional records\, to highlight Freeman’s contention that the Hetch Hetchy project would not just provide copious quantities of water and power\, but would also enhance the Sierra Nevada environment and increase tourist access to the northern reaches of the national park. His self-avowed goal was not to tear down or destroy Hetch Hetchy but to utilize the valley for the greater public good and to create a system that would serve the city for decades if not centuries to come. \nTo register for the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-man-who-dammed-hetch-hetchy-john-r-freeman-and-san-franciscos-yosemite-water-supply/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20251228T161826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T123508Z
UID:3043-1769020200-1769023800@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:James P. Keenan on Bookplates: The Art of This Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nOur 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. \nJames P. Keenan has collected bookplates for nearly fifty years and has been involved in the graphic arts field since the late 1970s. He has authored several books on ex libris\, including American Artists of the Bookplate (Cambridge Bookplate\, 1990 & 1996) and The Art of the Bookplate (Barnes & Noble\, 2003). He is currently updating Bookplates: The Art of This Century (Cambridge Bookplate) as an illustrated directory of the world’s top book artists and printmakers making ex libris prints today. \nFor twenty-five years\, Keenan has led the American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers (ASBC&D)\, founded in 1922. His role as publisher of the Society’s quarterly journal and Year Book underscores his influence and active engagement in the community. Through Cambridge Bookplate and ASBC&D\, Keenan has organized over thirty exhibitions at prominent libraries and museums nationwide\, showcasing the importance of his work and the Society’s collections to collectors and scholars alike. \nThis is a Zoom only program. To egister and reserve your seat today\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/james-p-keenan-on-bookplates-the-art-of-this-century/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T153000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101855
CREATED:20251229T124354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T124354Z
UID:3053-1769005800-1769009400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Incunabula of the Second Printing Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy 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 production\, leading to an explosion of reading material in continental Europe and the United States. Jeremy will discuss the difficulties of identifying the earliest examples of these new technologies in print. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-lecture-incunabula-of-the-second-printing-revolution-tickets-1975645870983?aff=ebdsoporgprofile\nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club. \n\n\n\n\n\nShow less
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/incunabula-of-the-second-printing-revolution/
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