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 […]
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Sponsored by FABS Join your host Reid Byers and the gang for discussion of the pleasures and challenges of the private library. For a link, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial conversation on all things bibliophilic and 19th century! For a link contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS “Collecting Erasmus” Martha will share a brief bio of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536) and provide short descriptions of several Erasmus volumes in her collection. These include the first edition of Erasmus’s In Novum Testamentum Annotationes (1542) which has been heavily censored by a very assiduous member of […]
Sponsored by FABS January 12: FABS Handpress Era Group. This month our guest speaker is Dr. David Wolf, who will speak on 16th century medical books in English including the 1541 edition of Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Castel of Helth. To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
Sponsored by FABS Convivial conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Hosted by Bill Bryson. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS Join the FABS Bindings group for presentations and discussion about the art and craft of bindings. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. This month’s topics: (1) How do we care for archives and manuscripts? (2) Ornamenta Biblioteca: What things other than books do we collect? Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS Presentations and discussion on the art and craft of bookbindings. Nora Epstein of the Newberry Library will speak, highlightinh some of the remarkable bindings that have made their way into the Newberry’s extraordinary collections. While exploring items such as a medieval tacketed binding and a 16c. girdle […]
Sponsored by FABS David Levy will present “The Earliest Hoyles: what a bibliographer can learn from examining multiple copies.” From 1742-1747 there were three authorized publishers of Hoyle’s pamphlets on popular games of the day. Each publisher had a characteristic binding, from a richly tooled deluxe morocco at the high […]