FABS Handpress Era Zoom: “Mandeville in the 21st Century”

Sponsored by FABS

March 10, 2025 4:30pm Pacific/6:30 Central/7:30pm EST

The next meeting of the FABS Handpress Era Zoom group features Dr. Martha Driver’s talk “Mandeville in the 21^st Century.” Prof. Driver will discuss The Travels of Sir John Mandeville with illustrations from Medieval manuscripts, handpress-era printed works, and a 21^st century fine press example.

Martha Westcott Driver, PhD, FSA, is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies (emerita) at Pace University in New York City. A co-founder of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history, she writes about illustration from manuscript to print and manuscript and book production. In addition to publishing some 90 articles in these areas, she has edited thirty journals, including the Journal of the Early Book Society. Her books include The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England (2001), An Index of Images in English MSS, with Michael Orr (2007), Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell, with Veronica O’Mara (2013), and John Gower in Manuscript and Early Printed Books, edited with Derek Pearsall and Robert F. Yeager (2020), among others. She serves on the executive boards of the American Trust for the British Library and the Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland and is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Morgan’s Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, the Society of Antiquaries (UK), the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie (AIB), the Bibliographical Society of America, the Bibliographical Society, UK, and the Grolier Club.