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 […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. In this program, Lauren Hewes will introduce Caxton Club members to the Stephen D. Paine Collection of American Ephemera at the American Antiquarian Society, a national research library located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The talk will include an overview of the 18,000 objects in the Paine Collection – a private collection […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. Have you stretched an animal skin lately? Prepared its surface to accept ink? Collected oak galls to make ink? Scribed? Added rubrics and colored initials? How about applied gesso and then adhered gold to it? Painstakingly painted on vellum? Our guest Sara Charles has. To paraphrase the movie Pulp Fiction, she […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. There is no vaccine. It can strike anyone. The chief occupant of the White House. A famous author. A lexicographer. A steel magnate. When it takes hold the mania begins to fester and then erupts in a messianic drive to invent a new communications method that will require everyone in […]