Here is the news from FABS for April. (Excuse the re-send; the dates for the Special Interest Groups have been corrected)
The April FABS blog post features Douglas Scott Brown's on his American history collection: "Plotting the Path to Justice: The Stories Behind the Stories." Brown takes us on a journey from Montesquieu and Cotton Mather to Isaiah Thomas and Harriet Beecher Stowe, presenting a stunning group of association copies.
The ABAA is accepting entries for the 2024 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest where more than $6,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors. The contest is open to all prizewinners of your college contests, whether or not first prize, and to interested students whose institutions do not offer contests. More information can be found here. All entries should be submitted here (in PDF) by June 10, 2024.
Even if not a member of a FABS society, YOU are welcome at the thriving FABS Special Interest Groups! Join us for an hour's informal discussion of your favorite topic. All groups meet at 4:30pm Pacific, 6:30pm Central and 7:30pm Eastern. To get on the list for one of these groups, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
April 8: Handpress Era (second Monday of the month). Printed materials before 1800. Our speakers will be Justin Hanisch on the printing history of Louis Renard’s Poissons, ecrevisses, et crabes, an early color-plate book on fishes, and J. David Archibald on Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne and its outsize influence, including on Charles Darwin.
April 18: 19th Century Group (third Thursday of the month). All things 19th-century and bookish
April 15: Bindings Group (third Monday of the month). Bindings and the bookbinding arts of all periods
April 23: Living With Books (fourth Tuesday of the month) All the pleasures and paraphernalia of home libraries |