Sponsored by The Caxton Club November Midday Program Belle da Costa Greene was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian from 1908–1913 and from 1924–1948 the first Director of the Morgan Library. Though a striking and much written about figure, much of what is known about Greene derives from her more than 600 letters to art historian Bernard Berenson. […]
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 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 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 Caxton Club January Evening Program The John Cage Collection held in the library at Northwestern University is a major research collection concerning the life and work of one of the most important artists of the 20th Century. Cage’s use of indeterminacy, electronics, silence, and other innovations created a lasting and profound impact […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. February Midday Program Jonathan Senchyne, Associate Professor & Director, Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin – Madison Oh we’re gonna shuffle-uffle-uffle off to Buffalo. You won’t have to navigate the crowds at Grand Central Station to shuffle off to Buffalo. Just click a Zoom […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club March Midday Program Robert Hunter Middleton (1898-1985) was a Caxton Club stalwart for half a century. He is now remembered primarily as a pioneer in the revival of the great engraver on wood, Thomas Bewick. In his own day, however, Middleton was best known as the prolific designer of types […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. March Midday Program Dr. Oren Margolis, associate professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich “So, are you going out with that Aldus guy again?” “I don’t know. Not sure I like that type.” Aldus. Aldine Press. Italics. Octavo. All immensely influential in the history of […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program Join Caxton Club members and Ian Gadd, Professor in English Literature, Bath Spa University, UK, for his talk on the "History of the Stationers Company." Well, here comes another of those Johnny-come-lately organizations that seem to pop up now and then. The Worshipful Company of Stationers in […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. June Midday Program Join the Caxton Club and Joseph Hone for his presentation on "The Book Forger." Let us clue you in. Composer Jerome Kern of Showboat and “The Way You Look Tonight” fame was an amazing book collector. And kern is going to figure prominently into the remarkable story you’ll be […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. Remember why we chose you for this assignment. You’re a reader. September 12 is the day all your training is put to the test. The code will be included in the special communique you’ll receive after you register. Memorize it and make it your own. It will be vital as […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. October Midday Program Caxtonians do love to go searching after a first. A first edition. A first printing. A first of its kind. Especially when the prize is a one-and-only. Now here’s a chance to realize that quest. We’ll be taking you to New York’s Hispanic Society of America Library, which […]