Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial and informal discussion of all things bibliophilic and nineteenth-century with your host Bill Bryson. Meets the third Thursday of the month. For a link to this month’s meeting, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
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Sponsored by FABS The FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group meets the second Monday of the month for presentations and discussion of printed materials before 1800. This month noted optics collector David DiLaura will speak on the transition from manuscript to print of illustrations dealing with geometry and natural philosophy, using […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Colm Tóibín Award winning Irish novelist and critic Colm Tóibín will trace the legacy of the Irish Literacy Renaissance through successive generations of Irish writers. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-irish-literary-renaissance-tickets-1981942212510?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Oscar Wilde’s posthumous reputation. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-after-oscar-the-legacy-of-a-scandal-tickets-1978912426338?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial group hosted by Reid Byers for conversation about the joys and challenges of home libraries. This month’s topics: 1. Book Cartoons and Jokes 2. What Advice might you offer to younger bibliophiles from your experience as a book collector? To receive a link, contact […]
Sponsored by FABS Dear Friends in the Republic of Books, Living with Books is a discussion group of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. Each month, we choose a couple of bibliophilic topics for open (and civil) discussion. The next meeting of FABS Living with Books will be on Tuesday, […]
By Paul Heyde Which came first? The Akron Antiquarian Book Fair or the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society? In retrospect, disentangling the origins of the two northeast Ohio institutions may not entirely be the point, as they both really germinated out of the same seed of thought. What started out as […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico’s first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, […]
Sponsored by FABS Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies Special Interest Group on Book Binding. February 23, 2026. Monday. 7:30 pm EST. Zoom presentation. Matt Brehe, a Seattle book and manuscript collector will share some early book bindings from his collection with a focus on bookbinder manuscript waste found within. Early […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS) Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:00 PM This year, we will convene the 40th Akron Antiquarian Book & Paper Show, and we will also celebrate what would be the 100th birthday of Frank Klein, one of the founding members of NOBS. Join us for […]