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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CREATED:20251230T122226Z
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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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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T180000
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SUMMARY:The Rendell Lecture: Meaning and Magic in Handwritten Material
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Grolier Club \nWith Glen Miranker \nIn 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. \n“When authors put pen to paper\, their handwritten text—plus insertions\, strike-throughs\, and other scribbles—reveal both a special aura and provide valuable clues for devoted readers\, bibliographers\, historians\, and biographers alike\,” Miranker said. “The up-close exploration of manuscripts can bring unparalleled understanding of its life and times and the community—agents\, reviewers\, illustrators\, bookbinders\, editors\, printers\, publishers\, booksellers\, collectors—with whom authors interact.” \nGlen Miranker is one of the foremost collectors of Sherlockian books and has served as a bibliophilic consultant and lecturer for numerous institutions\, including the Toronto Reference Library\, the Harry Ransom Center\, and the Newberry Library. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-annual-rendell-lecture-meaning-magic-in-handwritten-material-tickets-1975644939196?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-rendell-lecture-meaning-and-magic-in-handwritten-material/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T130000
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SUMMARY:Princeton's Influential Bollingen Series
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nWith Brigitta van Rheinberg\n\n\n\nThis 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. \nThe Bollingen series\, founded by Paul and Mary Mellon in 1940\, is one of the most distinguished and unique ventures in the history of American publishing. While the original aim was to make available in translation The Collected Works of C.G. Jung\, over the years the Bollingen series published the collected works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Paul Valéry\, as well as Wilhelm Baynes’s translation of The I Ching or Book of Changes; Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin; and works by D. T. Suzuki\, Erich Neumann\, Mircea Eliade\, Joseph Campbell\, Isaiah Berlin\, Gershom Scholem\, E. H. Gombrich and Kenneth Clark\, among other luminaries. Collectively\, these 275 books have had an enormous impact on American intellectual thought and cultural life and continue to resonate across many disciplines. In many ways\, the countercultural movement of the 60s is unthinkable without the Bollingen series. This talk by Brigitta van Rheinberg\, Associate Director\, Princeton University Press\, will cover the origins\, evolution\, scope\, history and enduring legacy of the Bollingen series. Princeton University Press is now republishing the volumes in a unified format\, making the entire series available for a new generation of readers. The lecture will also explore the challenges of working with literary estates and executors. It will be moderated by collector\, writer\, and Grolier Club member Dennis Schaefer. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-princeton-university-presss-influential-bollingen-series-tickets-1979743498096?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nBrigitta van Rheinberg is the Associate Director and Director of Global Development of Princeton University Press. She has been at the Press for over 30 years in various roles\, including sales\, special sales\, international rights\, and editorial. She was the Press’s History Publisher for over 25 years\, publishing major books in American\, European\, and World History\, and from 2006-2016 she led the Press’s Editorial Program as Editor-in-Chief. Brigitta holds a PhD in History from Tübingen University in Germany. Dennis Schaefer is a Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University and a past fellow with the Weimar Klassik Foundation and the Prussian Heritage Foundation.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/princetons-influential-bollingen-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nConvivial conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Hosted by Bill Bryson. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: The Pathfinder Papers. Exploring the History of the Fontaine-Maurys\, a Founding Family
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nRussell Hooper will discuss his collecting journey\, how he became interested in the Fontaine–Maury family\, and his vision for telling a story drawn from the history preserved in the papers. He will also highlight notable individuals represented in the collection\, including: Matthew Fontaine Maury\, “The Pathfinder of the Seas” and the “Father of Oceanography”; Presidents James Madison and James Garfield; Admiral Samuel DuPont; Ellen Mordecai\, author of History of a Heart and member of the influential Mordecai family; James Gore King\, often called “The Almighty of Wall Street”; John Cropper\, a world-renowned abolitionist known as “The Most Generous Man in Liverpool; William H. Galvani\, namesake of the William H. Galvani Rare Maps Collection at Oregon State University; Phillip Evans\, son of Jupiter Evans\, Thomas Jefferson’s personal enslaved servant; and Anthony Fiala\, National Geographic’s first Explorer-Cinematographer \nDate: Monday\, January 12\, 8PM EST\nGuest Presenter: Russell Hooper\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore \nRegister here: https://manuscript.org/2026/01/manuscript-mondays-the-pathfinder-papers-exploring-the-history-of-the-fontaine-maurys-a-founding-family-1-12-26/\nPresenter\nRussell Hooper is a history enthusiast and collector who\, over the past 15 years\, has amassed the largest known collection of Fontaine-Maury family papers\, which he calls “The Pathfinder Papers.” He lives in Spring Hill\, Tennessee\, where he has served on the Boards of The Battle of Franklin Trust and the Maury County Historical Society. In 2018\, Hooper received a 2018-2019 SCRC Research Travel Grant from the College of William & Mary.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-the-pathfinder-papers-exploring-the-history-of-the-fontaine-maurys-a-founding-family/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJanuary 12: FABS Handpress Era Group. This month our guest speaker is Dr. David Wolf\, who will speak on 16th century medical books in English including the 1541 edition of Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Castel of Helth. To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-group-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T190000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: The Origins and Legacy of an Antislavery Text
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nProfessor Emerita Dee E. Andrews and Assistant Professor Christopher S. Parmenter will discuss two elements of their new book manuscript\, Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: The Making of an Abolitionist Author in the Age of Revolution. Based on the first translation of Clarkson’s “An Liceat Invitos in Servitutem Dare” since 1786\, their work explores in depth the composition\, publication\, distribution\, response\, and reprinting\, not least of all in Revolutionary France\, of a central text in the first abolition movement. Our speakers will introduce the subject of the Latin Essay itself\, the significance its translation\, and how Clarkson reverses the formerly conventional argument regarding slavery in the classical tradition. There will be examples of unusual reader response to “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species” (1786) — the Latin Essay (greatly expanded) in print — and the essay’s endurance as an abolitionist symbol. \nTo register for the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/thomas-clarksons-latin-essay-the-origins-and-legacy-of-an-antislavery-text/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T122507Z
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Dibbell on The Libraries of Early America: Bringing Historical Libraries to Life
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \n \nTell the truth. When you get a look at someone’s library\, you do more than consider the shelving units and bookends. You take a careful look at the books themselves. Just what does this person read? Collect? Display? \nNow our guest\, Jeremy Dibbell is going to nudge H.G. Wells aside\, commandeer The Time Machine and take us into a fascinating journey through the American past to consider the libraries of the early colonial period through 1800. \nWhat was on Myles Standish’s shelf? Ben Franklin’s? Phyllis Wheatley Peters’? John Adams’? And more? \nHe’ll be drawing on the latest from The Libraries of Early America project (LibraryThing.com) to introduce us to the tastes and collections of the famous and the obscure. Who shelved guilty pleasures? How-To manuals? Theological works? Scientific treatises? \nJeremy Dibbell serves as Special Collections Librarian at Binghamton University. A member of the American Antiquarian Society\, he has been director of communications and outreach at Rare Book School\, a reference librarian at the Massachusetts Historical Society\, and has been librarian for social media and rare books at LibraryThing. \nTo register: https://caxtonclub.org/event-6465196/Registration \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jeremy-dibbell-on-the-libraries-of-early-america-bringing-historical-libraries-to-life/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T193000
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SUMMARY:Fashions on Paper: The Words of Regency Dress
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nDr. Hilary Davidson looks at the words of fashion in use during Austen’s adult life. This lecture is in conjunction with the “Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen” exhibit at the Grolier Club.\n\n\n\nHow did Jane Austen\, her contemporaries\, and their fashion media describe clothing\, and what did they mean when they did? The language of Regency dress is not necessarily straightforward to understand now. Drawing on new research underpinning her 2025 book\, A Guide to Regency Dress: From Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslin\, this presentation looks at the words of fashion in use during Austen’s adult life and their slippery associations with actual garments worn during the Regency. \nDr. Hilary Davidson is a dress\, textiles and fashion historian and curator\, associate professor\, and chair of the MA Fashion and Textile Studies: History\, Theory\, Museum Practice in the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In 2007\, Hilary became curator of fashion and decorative arts at the Museum of London. She presented on the BBC documentary\, Pride & Prejudice: Having a Ball\, reconstructed Jane Austen’s pelisse for this summer’s A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 at the Morgan Library and Museum and spoke at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meetings in both 2024 and 2025. Research sparked by Professor Davidson’s reconstruction of Jane Austen’s pelisse led to her most recent book\, A Guide to Regency Dress: From Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslin. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-fashions-on-paper-the-words-of-regency-dress-tickets-1661348370699?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fashions-on-paper-the-words-of-regency-dress/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T130000
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SUMMARY:Gabe Henry on Enough Is Enuf – Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nThere is no vaccine. It can strike anyone. The chief occupant of the White House. A famous author. A lexicographer. A steel magnate. \nWhen it takes hold the mania begins to fester and then erupts in a messianic drive to invent a new communications method that will require everyone in the United States to unlearn something they’ve been taught (or not) since childhood. \nBefore it subsides it can bankrupt the infected. Expose them to public ridicule. And provide a barrel of laughs to all of us who read about it\, hear about it\, and watch from a safe distance. \nIt’s the contagion that Gabe Henry reveals in his exceptionally entertaining book\, Enough Is Enuf – Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell (HarperCollins 2025). Henry\, also editor of Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats\, will tell the sad tale of how English was mixed in a great bowl into which was dropped Celtic\, Latin\, Norse\, Anglo-Saxon\, and Norman and then seasoned by the whims of Wiliam Caxton. And about the Quixotic missions by the great and the obscure to rationalize it\, as they are consumed by the thought\, “If only everyone would just listen. My scheme makes so much sense.” \nQuick! Register today before our whole website is taken over by emojis! \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. To. register\, click here  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/gabe-henry-on-enough-is-enuf-our-failed-attempts-to-make-english-eezier-to-spell/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T190000
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SUMMARY:New Discoveries About Winston Churchill's Autobiography
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nDr. Gary L. Stiles\, collector and Grolier member\, will discuss his latest book\, A Prelude to Immortality: Winston Churchill’s ‘My Early Life’ (Unicorn Publishing)\, which sheds light on why and how Churchill came to write an autobiography that has had global impact. The book has been continuously in print for more than 95 years in English editions and printed in 31 non-English speaking countries in 27 languages. Dr. Stiles has uncovered 62 previously unknown non-English versions. His book analyses Churchill’s unusual and effective writing approach\, use of contemporary first-person narrative\, and lyric poetry style that vividly portrays dramatic events. Churchill wrote the book to reinvigorate his persona in the public eye\, challenge a new generation to become involved in society and politics\, paint an image of a bygone era\, and tell his own full educational and military saga\, while generating needed income. \nDr. Gary L. Stiles is a widely published writer\, physician\, medical researcher\, corporate executive\, and student of history and art with a 40-year interest in Winston Churchill and his writings. He was the Ursula Geller Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Research at Duke University. His previous book subjects include the 19th-century painter William Hart and Punch magazine’s depictions of Churchill. \nDr. Stiles’ book will be available for sale and signing. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-new-discoveries-about-winston-churchills-autobiography-tickets-1661345612449?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \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/new-discoveries-about-winston-churchills-autobiography/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T203000
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CREATED:20251029T130224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T181352Z
UID:3007-1764097200-1764102600@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
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) How do we care for archives and manuscripts? (2) Ornamenta Biblioteca: What things other than books do we collect? Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T011840
CREATED:20251029T125631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251102T123933Z
UID:3001-1763667000-1763670600@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin the FABS 19th Century group on Zoom for congenial discussion of all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-15/
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