Sponsored by The Grolier Club A talk exploring the life, work, and home of lexicographer Samuel Johnson by Celine Luppo McDaid, for the past decade Donald Hyde Curator and Director of Dr. Johnson’s House in London. McDaid is responsible for managing the only UK museum dedicated to the history of […]
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Presented by the Rosenback Library and Museum Selected Mondays September-November, 7:00-8:30pm Eastern Time “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” A continuation of our Sundays With … series, our new Austen Mondays series will focus […]
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Boštjan Petrič, author of the blog The Fate of Books. Huh? What? I thought this was supposed to be a blog about book collecting? … Calm down, everything is OK, it’s still the same blog you left last time. This is a guest post, […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Zoom event open to the public. September 27, 6:30pm Chicago time George Salter (1897–1967) was a German-born and, from 1940 on, American calligrapher, book and book jacket designer, illustrator, and teacher who revolutionized the world of book jacket design. His design work ranged from best […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington and FABS Open to all members of FABS Societies Members of FABS Societies visiting the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair are cordially invited to a reception on Saturday October 8, 2022 from 5:00-6:30 Pacific Time at McHugh’s on 21 Mercer Street, west of the […]
Sponsored by The Baxter Society Wed. Nov. 9 at 7:00pm Eastern Time Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event. Jefferson Navicky, Archivist and Sarah E. Baker, Curator, both of the Maine Women Writers Collection […]
Sponsored by The Baxter Society. Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event. Wed. Oct 12 at 7:00pm Eastern Time. David R. Godine, independent publisher, will speak on Maine books and authors together with some […]
Sponsored by The Baxter Society. On Zoom, Wed. Sept. 14 at 7:00pm Eastern Time Jennifer Larson, Chair of FABS, will give an illustrated lecture on her collection of miniature and small format books printed in the 17th century, their relationship to the intellectual currents of the time, and the reasons […]
Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America The June 2022 issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) is devoted to the traditions and futures of Black Bibliography. Join guest Editors Jacqueline Goldsby and Meredith McGill, together with authors and contributors to the volume, for a Virtual […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Allen Ellenzweig will speak on photographer George Lynes. September 20, 6:00pm New York time About this event Virtual talk by Allen Ellenzweig, author of George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye [Oxford]. Lynes (1907-1955) was the lover of, and collaborator with, Grolier Council member Monroe Wheeler, an exhibition […]