Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program You probably misheard it over the radio. Barbra Streisand wasn’t singing about “Secondhand Rose” … she was belting out “Secondhand Prose.” Just think about some of the most precious volumes in your collection. The ones that you didn’t purchase fresh off the […]
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Sponsored by The Caxton Club March Evening Program Hannah Batsel “A Library of Images: An Artist and Illustrator’s Handbibliothek.” While the subject matter of Hannah’s collection varies widely, every volume serves the same purpose: a reference tool to lend detail and verisimilitudes to the books she creates. In addition to books […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Lieutenant Lorenzo Lorain is remembered in part by some historians as the first officer from Oregon to be wounded in the Civil War. But we’ll be learning about another, unique first. Lorain undertook to photograph Native peoples who lived along the Oregon coast. The images […]
Editor’s note: This review is reprinted from the Jan/Feb 2024 issue of The Caxtonian with the kind permission of John Hoover and The Caxton Club. by John Hoover Virginia Kramer and Timothy Hawley. A Bibliography of The Printery: The Private Press of Kay Michael Kramer. St. Louis: Mercantile Library Association, 2023. Limited […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Halloween approaches. It’s Friday the 13th. The path to the Caxton meeting is illuminated by the faint glow of a Zoom screen. And are those the sounds of hoofbeats approaching from behind? Could it be a hurrying Hessian? With all of that, not even Van […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and The Newberry Library Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio at the Newberry. This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Free and open to all. Register at […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Theater didn’t just spring to life with Shakespeare. Morality, mystery, masques and more trod the boards long before anyone conjured up the First Folio. You’ll want to be in the audience as Dr. Carol Symes explores the lively history of medieval plays. Among Caxton speakers, […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club EVENT DETAILS: June Evening Program This lecture will examine the parallel and divergent, as well as the oppositional and united trends in private versus institutional rare book collecting, through historical lens. Where do private collectors stand in relation to librarians in the rare book field? […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program Now we take search for granted, asking Alexa or Siri to race through the Internet to find (though not always on the first try) exactly what we’re looking for. But it hasn’t always been so. People used to be faced with a […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club April Evening Program Join us in welcoming Caxtonian Bruce Kennett as he discusses W.A. Dwiggins and his Athalinthia via Zoom. Produced entirely in New England, Athalinthia is filled with delights. It comes straight from the imagination and heart of W.A. Dwiggins (WAD), one of the great visual artists of […]