FABS Member Society Online/Virtual Events for this month: Free and Open to the Public
It's time for Manuscript Monday! Dr. Ian S. MacLaren will speak about artist Paul Kane (1810–1871), who traveled by canoe and boat from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean in the mid-1840s. His aim was to sketch Native Americans in Wisconsin and Oregon territories and in lands controlled by the Hudson’s Bay Company. An uneducated artist, Kane wrote in inimitable spelling both field notes and portrait and landscape logs. (The Manuscript Society, Sept 9).
The FABS Handpress Group will host a presentation by John Bidwell, Curator Emeritus at the Morgan Library & Museum. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie was a bestseller during the Romantic era. One of its bibliographers counted 269 editions published between 1789 and 1962. Bidwell will describe the 1795 first edition of the English translation by Helen Maria Williams, a book that has stumped the bibliographers because it appeared without an imprint. After Q&A, we’ll have open mic for New Acquisitions (broadly construed)! (September 9; contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org)
What better way to spend Friday the 13th than in the company of printers, prevaricators, peddlers, and penny broadsides? Join Nora Davies, digital asset specialist at Smith College, for Crymes and Rhymes: The Broadside Ballad and the Celebrity Criminal and enter the world of early modern London! (September 13, Caxton Club)
The FABS Bindings Interest Group (third Monday of the month) hosts discussions and presentations that share collections and information on bookbindings of all periods. Topics include, but are not limited to, history, design and aesthetics, innovation, materials and craft techniques. You are welcome to join us on September 16, 7:30pm NY/4:30pm LA time! To get on the mailing list contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
The Baltimore Bibliophiles will host collections advisor Spencer Stuart for a presentation on the post-pandemic challenges facing bibliophilic societies and other nonprofits. He will discuss membership development, attracting donations and sustaining volunteer support (Baltimore Bibs, September 17)
The FABS 19th Century Zoom Group (third Thursday of the month) invites you for congenial conversation on all things 19th-century and bookish. You are welcome at the next meeting on September 19! To join the list contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
How did people in the 15th and 16th centuries get their news? Brendan Dooley, professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork, will lecture on one of the Renaissance’s great forgotten inventions: regular public transmission of written news. Dooley’s examples will show how Renaissance news evolved from manuscript newsletters into printed newspapers, with long-term consequences still keenly felt. (The Grolier Club, Sept 20)
The FABS Living With Books Zoom Group, hosted by Reid Byers, invites you to their lively monthly discussion of home libraries, with all their pleasures and paraphernalia. Recent discussions have included cataloging, lighting, photographing books, bookmarks, and much more. (FABS, Sept 24; NOTE that this group now meets at 7:00pm EST; contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org)
Join The Grolier Club for a live webcast as British historian, professor, and author Anthony Bale discusses his new book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World through Medieval Eyes. This talk is co-sponsored by Dr. Adler’s new foundation, the New York Medieval Society. Professor Bale will explore a range of sources – maps, travel guides, itemized records, itineraries, pilgrim badges, and more – to illuminate the marvelous real and imagined journeys of medieval travelers (Sept 26; The Grolier Club)
William Claspy of the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western will present "Charles Dickens in America," with a brief overview of the manuscript letters in the Kelvin Smith collection, plus the recent acquisition of a previously unpublished letter written by Charles Dickens in 1842. (Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, Sept. 26)
Stay tuned to the FABS Calendar, as more events are sure to be posted soon.
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