Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday - A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society Date: Monday, June 15 @ 8pm EST Guest Presenter: Caroline Bicks is the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society A live presentation followed by a Q […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club An evening of Traditional Irish Music featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis, Ursula Garry, Matt Stapleton Isaac Alderson Join the Grolier Club and the Irish Arts Center for a special Bloomsday, June 16th, evening of traditional Irish music, featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis on fiddle, Ursula Garry on flute, Matt Stapleton on guitar, and Isaac Alderson on the uilleann pipes. We look forward to an […]
Sponsored by FABS This congenial Zoom group moderated by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley meets monthly to discuss all things bookish and 19th century! We hope you will join us. For a link contact Jennifer Larson info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS Hosted on Zoom by Reid Byers, author of The Private Library, this discussion-based group focuses on the joys and challenges of the home library. This month's topics: 1. Books that Opened Up a New World for Us 2. Reading in Bed We hope you will join us! For a link contact Jennifer […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club This play covers the five days in which the 1916 Rebels occupied the GPO after proclaiming an independent Irish Republic. First performed inside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin during the 2016 commemoration of the Easter Rising, this play covers the five days in which the 1916 […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Detroit Bookseller Sam Gatteno presents highlights from his eclectic collection, including Shakespeare and Shakespeare forgeries, incunables and 16th century books, fine press books, art books, Bibles, and bindings. A past president of the Book Club of Detroit and a well-respected antiquarian book collector, Sam has extensive expertise on earliest […]
Sponsored by FABS On Monday July 13 we have two guests: Dr. Gene Flamm will discuss his copy of the first printed medical dictionary: Simon Genuensis . Synonyma medicinae sive Clavis sanationis. Padua: 1474. This copy has an interesting non-medical provenance. Martha Driver Ph.D. will present "A Holy Card and A Book of Hours: Tracking […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday - A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society Date: Monday, July 13 @ 8pm EST Guest Presenter: Lynn Ransom, Curator of Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and Acting Executive Director, Digital Scriptorium Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society A pre-recorded webinar with […]
Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial group for conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th-century! We meet monthly on the third Thursday. To be added to the list for links, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS Dr. Stephanie Stillo, Chief, Rare Books and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress will show us some of the recently acquired bindings in the collection. The Library of Congress actively adds artists' books, fine and design bindings, and other treasures to the collection. July 20, Monday, 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific. […]
Sponsored by NOBS 7:00 PM 8:30 PM Congregation Mishkan Or, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Beachwood, Ohio, is the steward of an extraordinary collection of more than 200 rare volumes of Hebrew and other Jewish books from the 15th-20th centuries. Dr. Harold Greenbaum, a Cleveland physician, donated this collection to his synagogue, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, one of […]
The Celebrate People’s History poster series has organized and curated by Josh MacPhee since 1998. The over 200 posters in the ongoing series are rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda, but detourned to embody principles of democracy, inclusion, and group participation in the writing and interpretation of history. Over more […]