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FABS Member Society events for November. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
November 3: City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley’s new book City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. (Book Club of California)
November 5: Margaret Armstrong was one of the most celebrated and prolific book cover designers of the late 19th and early 20th century, with more than 300 known designs published over her 40-year career. Madison Good, of The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library Special Collections, will discuss Armstrong’s career, highlights of her work, and some of the Armstrong books held in Ohio State’s special collections. (The Ohio State University Libraries with The Aldus Society)
November 5: Lauren Hewes on American Ephemera before 1900. Lauren Hewes will discuss the Stephen D. Paine Collection of American Ephemera at the American Antiquarian Society. The talk will include an overview of the 18,000 objects in the Paine Collection – a private collection built between c.1975 and 1997 and recently donated to AAS – and an explanation of the Society’s larger ephemera holdings. Hewes will discuss how libraries decide what qualifies as “ephemera” and how researchers have used pre-1900 ephemeral objects in their projects. (The Caxton Club)
November 7: New Light on Medieval Manuscript Culture. Andrew Jotischky, Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, will speak about the manuscript culture at the heart of his recent book, The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History (Yale University Press, 2024). His talk will be followed by a conversation with Gillian Adler, President of the New York Medieval Society. (The Grolier Club)
November 10: FABS Handpress Era Group. 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 end, to drab paper wrappers at the bottom. The bindings reveal much about how the pamphlets were sold and who read them. To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
November 10: The Binfords & Mort Story: Publishing Books About Oregon, 1930-1983.
In 1891 while still teens in Portland, Oregon, Maurice and Peter Binford started an influential career as publishers. They went on to found the Binfords & Mort publishing company focused on Pacific Northwest literature. This talk will explore how this mostly forgotten company, once the largest publisher west of the Mississippi, cast a large shadow over regional literature, literary societies, recreation, and civic engagement in the Pacific Northwest. (The Book Club of California)
November 12: A Black Bibliophile Tradition in Philadelphia. Jordan Ross will explore the collecting habits of African American bibliophiles in Philadelphia during the 19th and early 20th centuries. (The Grolier Club)
November 14: Sara Charles on The Medieval Scriptorium – Making Books in the Middle Ages. Have you stretched an animal skin lately? Prepared its surface to accept ink? Collected oak galls to make ink? Scribed? Added rubrics and colored initials? How about applied gesso and then adhered gold to it? Painstakingly painted on vellum?
Sara Charles has. This talented book historian will be joining us from the University of London, where she is co-editor of Historical Research and Journals Manager for University of London Press, to discuss her newest book. (The Caxton Club)
November 16: Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books. Author Eric Marshall White will share his fresh insights into Gutenberg’s life and accomplishments, including correctives to old legends and conjectures. Dr. White’s presentation about his recently published book Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books will focus on what we really know about Gutenberg and how we know it, with thoughts on how we teach the subject within a more global history of books. (The Book Club of Washington)
November 17: Join the FABS 19th Century group on Zoom for congenial discussion of all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
November 18: Raffaella della Olga on her exhibition “Typescripts.” Italian-born, Paris-based artist Raffaella della Olga will speak with Clark Art Institute curator and historian Robert Wiesenberger about her works on view in the exhibition “Typescripts” opening Nov. 22. She uses modified typewriters and multicolor ink ribbons on various materials—including tracing paper, photo paper, and even sandpaper—to make unique artist’s books, each addressed to a different conceptual or technical problem. (The Grolier Club)
November 20: FABS Bindings Group. The guest speaker this month will be Nora Epstein of the Newberry Library. She will highlight 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 book, we will also discuss the history of bookbinding in historical inquiry and the role of collection development policy in shaping a library's legacy. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
November 25: FABS Living With Books Group. Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Stay tuned to the FABS Calendar, as more events are sure to be posted soon.
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