FABS Bindings Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join the FABS Bindings group for presentations and discussion about the art and craft of bindings. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
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FABS Living With Books Zoom Group: Money and Provenance
Sponsored by FABS Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. This month's topics: (1) What role does money play in book […]
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Digger Do: Excavating a Social Movement Through Its Print Ephemera
Sponsored by the Book Club of California. How do we uncover the arc of a social movement through its broadsides, street sheets, mimeographed leaflets, and print ephemera? In this illustrated […]
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FABS Handpress Era: Martha Driver on Collecting Erasmus
Sponsored by FABS "Collecting Erasmus" Martha will share a brief bio of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536) and provide short descriptions of several Erasmus volumes in her collection. […]
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Constructing Scientific Eminence in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society The 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 […]
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RGME Symposium at The Grolier Club: Transformations and Renewals
Sponsored by The Research Group for Manuscript Evidence and The Grolier Club With Mildred Budny, Beppy Owen, John T. McQuillen, Reid Byers, Richard Kopley, Mark Samuels Lasner, and Mary Crawford […]
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Jessica Spring: From Printers Row to Parts Unknown
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. February Evening Program Book artist and letterpress printer Jessica Spring will share strange-but-true tales of her journey from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, guided by […]
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Lindsay DiCuirci on Traps for the Young: Comstockery and Its Legacies
Caxton ClubSponsored by The Caxton Club. There’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 […]
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Valentine’s Day Celebration and Talk: Cassandra Austen
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Janine Barchas Cassandra Austen played an important role in the legacy of her novelist sister. Janine Barchas (one of the three curators of the […]
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Edward Potten and Elizabeth Savage on Carbon-dating “Medieval” Woodblocks: A New Approach to the History of Book Collecting
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. February Evening Program In this program, Ed Potten and Elizabeth Savage will introduce Caxton Club members to an entirely new way of understanding woodblocks: as […]
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FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial conversation on all things bibliophilic and 19th century! For a link contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
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A Visual Journey: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored by The Book Club of California. In 1870 at age 33, Sara Plummer Lemmon left the East Coast and moved west to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany […]