Sponsored by FABS Jan 8: Your Favorite Book of 2023 What book in 2023 was most interesting or memorable for you? Perhaps it was a gift, a purchase or even the one that got away! Join us to tell your story (up to 5 minutes) or just to enjoy the discussion. No need for a […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club The Hroswitha Club was a bibliographic society whose members were all women. Why? Well, it certainly couldn’t have been because when this women’s-only bibliographic society was formed during the 1940s, women with a passion for books, book collecting, and book arts weren’t permitted to join organizations such as New York’s […]
Sponsored by FABS Jan 15 7:30-8:50pm eastern / 6:30-7:50pm midwest / 5:30-6:50pm mountain / 4:30-5:50pm pacific BINDING STONE SOUP :: RING IN THE NEW YEAR! Join FABS members interested in Bindings for Presentations and Discussions on two of their favorite works. We invite all members to chose one or two books from their collection- works […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our Tuesday, January 16 ZOOM program features Margaret D. Stetz and Mark Samuels Lasner on “Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity” Margaret D. Stetz: “What Would Beerbohm Do?” Mark Samuels Lasner: “A Lifelong Attack of Maximania: Collecting Max Beerbohm” The time as usual is 7:00 pm Eastern time (US and […]
Co-presented and hosted by The Book Club of California, The Bibliographical Society of America and the American Trust for the British Library Jan 17, 6:00pm Pacific Time The newly discovered notebook of Isaac Newton An in-person and virtual presentation by Scott Mandelbrote, Fellow, Director of Studies in History, and Perne and Ward Librarian, at Peterhouse, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Clbub Aldus Manutius invented italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since. He also printed the mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the most beautiful book of the Italian Renaissance. In celebration of the first monograph in English on Aldus Manutius in over forty years, Grolier Club member […]
Sponsored by FABS January 18 The 19th Century special interest group meets the third Thursday of the month at 4:30-5:30pm Pacific time and 7:30-8:30pm Eastern time. This informal and friendly group offers “a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book professionals.” Join us! To […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club The second annual Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture on the Importance of Historical Letters and Documents. Grolier member Kenneth W. Rendell will speak on "Hidden Themes in Collecting: What I Discovered About My Own Collecting." This program will be live webcast. Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-kenneth-w-rendell-on-hidden-themes-in-collecting-tickets-796214989467?aff=ebdsoporgprofile If you are a Grolier Club member, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club H. George Fletcher, Curator of "Judging a Book by Its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of the Grolier Club, 1470s-2020," will lecture on the Club's collection of fine and historic bookbindings in conjunction with Bibliography Week. This lecture will be live webcast. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-annual-bibliography-week-lecture-tickets-796218158947?aff=ebdsoporgprofile If you are a Grolier Club […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Please join us at the Caxton Club’s January 24 evening Zoom program to celebrate Caxtonian T. Kimball Brooker’s extraordinary collection of Renaissance books and bindings. Currently up for auction at Sotheby’s in an unprecedented series of eight sales in New York, London, and Paris, the collection embodies Mr. Brooker’s passion […]
The Grolier Club Copyright today controls a vast range of created things, from songs to software, fancy dress costumes and semiconductor chip designs; it also provides a neverending income stream to the owners of the rights it creates, who almost always turn out to be corporations. That’s obviously not what copyright was intended to do […]