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, […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Kristy Caldwell Illustrator Kristy Caldwell will share the process of creating Catenary Books, a series of six narratively connected bookplates developed during her 2025 William H. Helfand Fellowship at the Grolier Club Library. Kristy Caldwell is a New York-based illustrator and an assistant professor […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Jane Ziegelman Jane Ziegelman, author of the new book Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World, will explore a little known body of Jewish folk literature known as yizkor books. Written by Holocaust survivors, yizkor books were privately published […]
Sponsored by The Research Group for Manuscript Evidence and The Grolier Club With Mildred Budny, Beppy Owen, John T. McQuillen, Reid Byers, Richard Kopley, Mark Samuels Lasner, and Mary Crawford Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, a Princeton-based 501(c)(3) educational organization, will visit the Grolier Club for an […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Photographers Make Picture Books: An Under-Explored Illustration Art with Leonard Marcus Children’s book expert (and Grolier Club member) Leonard Marcus will lecture on the under-appreciated genre of photographically illustrated children’s books, subject of an exhibition that he curated at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Brigitta van Rheinberg This talk will explore how Princeton University Press’s Bollingen Series, founded in 1940 and now being rereleased, published hundreds of works by the likes of Coleridge, Jung, and Nabokov and shaped American intellectual thought and cultural life. The Bollingen series, founded […]
Sponsored by the Grolier Club With Glen Miranker In this lecture, Glen Miranker will discuss both the intangible values and the tangible insights that are inherent in some of the holograph manuscripts, letters, notebooks, and marginalia from his collection of Sherlock Holmes material. “When authors put pen to paper, their […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Hilary Davidson looks at the words of fashion in use during Austen’s adult life. This lecture is in conjunction with the “Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen” exhibit at the Grolier Club. How did Jane Austen, her contemporaries, and their fashion media describe clothing, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Gary L. Stiles will discuss his latest book, A Prelude to Immortality: Winston Churchill’s ‘My Early Life’ (Unicorn Publishing). Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-new-discoveries-about-winston-churchills-autobiography-tickets-1661345612449?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Gary L. Stiles, collector and Grolier member, will discuss his latest book, A Prelude to Immortality: Winston Churchill’s ‘My Early Life’ (Unicorn Publishing), which sheds light on why and how Churchill came to write an autobiography that has had global impact. The book has been continuously […]