Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club as Andrew Hui, associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will lecture on his new book, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Princeton), which reveals how the Renaissance studiolo (“little studio”), space dedicated to self-cultivation, became both balm and poison for the soul. Prof. Hui, an insatiable bookworm himself, […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program Presented by the Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium August 24, 1949: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks is published. It is her second volume of poetry, and readers admire and struggle with its technical forms, its atomizations, and critiques of racial life in Black America. At the book’s center […]
Sponsored by FABS Join us this month as Dr. Gene Flamm discusses some variations among the incunable editions of the first illustrated work on anatomy – Ketham's Fasciculus medicinae, 1491-1500. To get on the mailing list for this group and receive links, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program A recent Caxton Club program unfolded like an English country house mystery: The Case of the Poison Pigments, in which the Winterthur Library played a vital detecting role. New to Inspector Winterthur? Well, imagine a 175-room house nestled into a remarkable thousand-acre estate. It was brought to life […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a video tour of the exhibition "Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print" with curator Mazy Boroujerdi, followed by live online Q&A. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-qa-abraham-lincoln-his-life-in-print-tickets-1044332595907?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial group for conversation on all things bookish and 19th century! For announcement and links to the monthly meetings, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS The Handpress Era Zoom group is hosting a talk by bookseller and William Blake expert John Windle, who will discuss the pochoir technique used at the Trianon Press to create extraordinary facsimiles of works by Blake and others. Join us! Contact Jennifer: info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by The Book Club of Detroit As soon as people in the West learned to print, they made little books. But what types of books were produced in very small formats, and why? Using examples from her collection, Jennifer Larson will describe the development of miniature formats and typography, and explore the literary authors […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club January Midday Program “It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.” Daniel Webster Curl up in your Zoom Room and prepare to be magically transported to that much loved small college in Hanover, New Hampshire. As Londoners became increasingly literate, […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Mondays J.K. Lilly, Jr. and His Collecting of Manuscripts Special Date: January 13, 2025 8:00 PM Eastern Free, Live Webinar J.K. Lilly Jr. was a visionary, a keen businessman with a generous spirit and one of Lilly Endowment’s three founders. He built extensive collections of coins, stamps, books and manuscripts, […]
Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial discussion of all things bookish and 19th century! Hosted by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley. To get on the mailing list, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Join Leonard Marcus and The Baltimore Bibliophiles for a presentation entitled “Strong Women, Great Books: The Women Who Invented American Children's Book Publishing." For link contact Binnie Syril Braunstein, bsbgc@aol.com