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SUMMARY:Tim Gress on Collector Burton Emmett and American Book Design
DESCRIPTION:During the First World War the American Red Cross mobilized fundraising with the slogan “All you need is a heart and a dollar.” It was so successful that it was quickly displayed all over the country on billboards\, posters\, in newspapers\, and more. \nThat catchphrase was the inspiration of Burton Emmett — a former book agent\, newspaper editor\, reporter\, and theatrical press agent who had become an advertising executive. \nBut his heart lay in collecting. Art and books. Preferably beautifully designed books. \nSome of the Emmett collection will be on display as part of an exhibition called The Touch of Art: American Book Design 1880–1930 at the University of North Carolina’s Wilson Library\, but you won’t need to book a trip to Chapel Hill to catch a look at it. Instead\, you’ll enjoy a guided tour\, with special background about Emmett. All from Tim Gress\, who is curating the exhibition. \nGress is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Fellow whose research focuses in part on the history of the book. He also serves as a graduate assistant in the Rare Book Collection at the Wilson. \nIf you like stories of collecting\, great book design\, and hearing the inside scoop about a carefully curated exhibition\, then you’ll want to register. No dollar required. It’s free! \nClick here to register. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/tim-gress-on-collector-burton-emmett-and-american-book-design/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T120000
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SUMMARY:Julie Tanaka on Is This a Book? The University of Washington Library’s Book Arts Collection
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club \nJune Midday Program \n \nYoung Lochinvar is come out of the west … which is great\, because that leaves plenty of room for us to head to Seattle to enjoy a virtual visit to the University of Washington’s superb book arts collection\, which includes historical and modern pieces encompassing all aspects of the physical book. \nWhether you’re a fan of typography\, paper making\, letterpress and offset printing\, illustration\, book design\, paper decoration\, calligraphy\, sculptural and conceptional work\, or artist’s books\, you’ll find them on the shores of Union and Portage Bays. \nWe’ll be going behind the scenes\, thanks to the good offices of Julie Tanaka\, Associate Dean for Distinctive Collections at the UW Library. As a special treat for Caxtonians\, her generously illustrated talk will reveal highlights of the collection and give attendees a first look at the library’s latest acquisitions. It’s like being first on the red carpet on opening night! \nJoin the pack and run with the big dogs to what promises to be a howling good time. Register today for this unique Zoom only program! To register\, click here. \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/julie-tanaka-on-is-this-a-book-the-university-of-washington-librarys-book-arts-collection/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T130000
DTSTAMP:20260324T181030Z
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SUMMARY:Adam Smyth on The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nMay Midday Program \n \nFrom the aptly named Wynkyn de Worde to creators of Zines\, Adam Smyth unspools the story of books by illuminating the lives of eighteen fascinating characters. Entertaining\, enlightening\, engaging\, and alliterative\, his book puts a fresh perspective on some familiar names while introducing others you may not be familiar with. \nDid Benjamin Franklin eat paper in order to increase the amount of fiber in his diet? Did William Wildgoose lead a campaign to outlaw quill pens out of deference to his namesake? While those intriguing questions aren’t actually addressed in Smyth’s terrific book\, he does use the broadest range of historical sources to revive and describe the sounds\, the smells\, and the atmosphere of the development of printing to reveal new perspectives on even the most well-trodden ground. \nSmyth is a professor of English literature and the history of the book at Oxford’s Balliol College. He may seem familiar to regular midday program viewers\, because other speakers have quoted him in their talks and because he is much in demand as a lecturer and learned guest in programs available online. \nMake a little history of your own and register for the May Midday today – click here!
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/adam-smyth-on-the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260506T183000
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SUMMARY:Chelsea Foxwell and Brooklyn Zhao on Fact and Fiction: Picturing the News in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of Anthony J. Mourek
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMay Evening Program \n \n  \nJapanese color prints and woodblock-printed books are beloved as works of art and literature. Less attention has been paid to those woodblock-printed images of the Meiji era (1868–1912) which purported to depict the news\, especially events of the First Sino-Japanese (1894–95) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) Wars. This presentation draws on works from the Anthony J. Mourek Collection now in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center\, University of Chicago to understand how this traditional medium combined fact and fiction to express Japan’s new identity as a modern nation. \nChelsea Foxwell\, Professor of Art History\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and the College Director\, Center for East Asian Studies\, University of Chicago. \nBrooklyn Zhao\, Undergraduate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, University of Chicago. \nRegister today\, here. \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/chelsea-foxwell-and-brooklyn-zhao-on-fact-and-fiction-picturing-the-news-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-from-the-collection-of-anthony-j-mourek/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T120000
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SUMMARY:Michelle Margolis on History and Highlights of the Collection of Jewish Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nHorace Walpole wrote a letter in which he coined the word serendipity. \nThe Royal and Ancient Gold Club of St Andrews got on course. \nA 22-year-old George Washington leads an ambush that triggers the French and Indian War. \nLouis XVI is born. \nWhat will become Columbia University is chartered in New York. \nThe year is 1754 and the Columbia library begins – right from the beginning – to collect rare Hebraica and Judaica materials. \nToday that collection has grown to include an amazing array of manuscripts\, incunabula\, sixteenth-century books\, and much\, much more. \nMichelle Margolis\, Lecturer in History and Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies\, will give us a rare glimpse of the collection’s treasures\, as she shares its story and illuminates its highlights. Her generously illustrated talk will reveal materials of great beauty\, historical importance\, and scholarship. \nAs the great ad campaign from the 1960s reminded us\, you don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish Rye … or to enjoy seeing a remarkable collection of Jewish books and documents. Step up to the counter and register for this Zoom only program today! \nTo register\, click here.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/michelle-margolis-on-history-and-highlights-of-the-collection-of-jewish-books-and-manuscripts-at-columbia-university/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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SUMMARY:Edward Potten and Elizabeth Savage on Carbon-dating “Medieval” Woodblocks: A New Approach to the History of Book Collecting
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nFebruary Evening Program \n \nIn this program\, Ed Potten and Elizabeth Savage will introduce Caxton Club members to an entirely new way of understanding woodblocks: as blocks of wood\, which are organic materials that can be carbon-dated. The talk will introduce carbon-dating in book collector-friendly terms\, survey our proof-of-concept project to carbon-date dubiously “medieval” and “early modern” woodblocks\, and explore new evidence that they are instead antiquarian inventions. They are not fakes\, intended to deceive. Instead\, they shed light on a long-forgotten way that early book collectors explored and honored print heritage by commissioning new “old” woodblocks. \nEdward Potten has published widely on book and library history\, with a particular focus on the fifteenth century. He was formerly Keeper of Printed Books at the John Rylands Library\, and Head of Rare Books\, Joint Head of Special Collections\, and Associate Director\, Special Collections and External Relations\, at Cambridge University Library. He is currently the Principal Consultant on an AHRC/DFG Project\, a collaboration between the University of Manchester\, Johannes Gutenberg University\, Mainz\, and the University of Erlangen. \nDr. Elizabeth Savage FSA FRHistS is Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications\, School of Advanced Study\, and Head of Academic Research Engagement\, Senate House Library\, University of London. Her books include Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum\, Printing Colour 1400–1700\, and Printing Colour 1700–1830. She curates and contributes to exhibitions about print heritage\, and has convened book history courses. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/edward-potten-and-elizabeth-savage-on-carbon-dating-medieval-woodblocks-a-new-approach-to-the-history-of-book-collecting/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T120000
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SUMMARY:Lindsay DiCuirci on Traps for the Young: Comstockery and Its Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \n \nThere’s nothing like a good moral panic about how young people are spending their time to get the blood boiling – whether it’s the presence of a pool table (Trouble\, right here in River City!)\, corrupting comic books\, or the perils of Snapchat. \nThat’s why Anthony Comstock’s 1883 conduct book Traps for the Young burned through five editions and rang alarm bells that echo today. Its legacy continues to shape censorship battles\, contentious school board meetings\, and confrontations in libraries. One First Amendment scholar suggests that Comstock is the individual who has most profoundly affected American culture. \nDr. Lindsay DiCuirci of the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County will be revealing the story of Comstock’s crusade. A prize winning author\, Lindsay directs the English Honors program at UMBC. She is a member of the American Antiquarian Society and a sought-after speaker across a range of bookish topics. \nWhether you used to hide a copy of something banned in that D.H. Lawrence text you were supposed to be reading\, searched for comics that didn’t feature the Approved By the Comics Code Authority seal\, or thought a game of pool was a perfectly swell way to pass an evening in Iowa\, it’s time you were Comstocked. Register for this event today! \nThis is a Zoom only presentation\, to register click here.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/lindsay-dicuirci-on-traps-for-the-young-comstockery-and-its-legacies/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260211T183000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Spring: From Printers Row to Parts Unknown
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFebruary Evening Program \n \nBook artist and letterpress printer Jessica Spring will share strange-but-true tales of her journey from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest\, guided by wise mentors – and some villains – who continue to inspire another climb into the press bed. \nSpring began her interest in typography as a phototypesetter in the 1980s working for the college newspaper and learning graphic design. After graduation\, she continued typesetting\, working at the last typesetting shop on Printer’s Row\, then at the Chicago Reader. Spring co-founded a graphic design firm\, and for over a decade\, offered letterpress printing while also serving predominantly nonprofit clients. As her interest in book arts grew\, she attended graduate school at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts and founded Springtide Press in 1999. \nBy 2003\, Spring moved to Tacoma\, Washington. She taught book arts for decades at Pacific Lutheran University and continues to teach workshops around the country. A continued focus has been researching historic type composition\, which resulted in the invention of Daredevil Furniture to help other printers set type in circles\, curves\, and angles. Collaborations are a vital part of her work\, including many years co-producing the Dead Feminists series and co-authoring Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color. \nThe projects at Springtide Press include artists books\, broadsides\, and ephemera\, and can be found in collections around the country and abroad. Small finely-crafted editions and one-of-a-kind books explore historical topics\, popular culture\, and typography from a unique perspective. Spring’s work focuses on amplifying voices needing to be heard\, telling stories in a new way\, and ultimately\, preservation through production. \nOur shop motto\, “where we always print damp” recognizes the Pacific Northwest as a fine place to print\, where the damp climate helps make a good impression. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jessica-spring-on-from-printers-row-to-parts-unknown/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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SUMMARY:James P. Keenan on Bookplates: The Art of This Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nOur speaker will briefly discuss antique bookplates\, but his emphasis will be on the contemporary art form and the fact that bookplates are in use worldwide today! Bookplates are used to mark pride in book ownership and to facilitate exchange to build collections and global friendships. \nJames P. Keenan has collected bookplates for nearly fifty years and has been involved in the graphic arts field since the late 1970s. He has authored several books on ex libris\, including American Artists of the Bookplate (Cambridge Bookplate\, 1990 & 1996) and The Art of the Bookplate (Barnes & Noble\, 2003). He is currently updating Bookplates: The Art of This Century (Cambridge Bookplate) as an illustrated directory of the world’s top book artists and printmakers making ex libris prints today. \nFor twenty-five years\, Keenan has led the American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers (ASBC&D)\, founded in 1922. His role as publisher of the Society’s quarterly journal and Year Book underscores his influence and active engagement in the community. Through Cambridge Bookplate and ASBC&D\, Keenan has organized over thirty exhibitions at prominent libraries and museums nationwide\, showcasing the importance of his work and the Society’s collections to collectors and scholars alike. \nThis is a Zoom only program. To egister and reserve your seat today\, click here.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/james-p-keenan-on-bookplates-the-art-of-this-century/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T130000
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Dibbell on The Libraries of Early America: Bringing Historical Libraries to Life
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \n \nTell the truth. When you get a look at someone’s library\, you do more than consider the shelving units and bookends. You take a careful look at the books themselves. Just what does this person read? Collect? Display? \nNow our guest\, Jeremy Dibbell is going to nudge H.G. Wells aside\, commandeer The Time Machine and take us into a fascinating journey through the American past to consider the libraries of the early colonial period through 1800. \nWhat was on Myles Standish’s shelf? Ben Franklin’s? Phyllis Wheatley Peters’? John Adams’? And more? \nHe’ll be drawing on the latest from The Libraries of Early America project (LibraryThing.com) to introduce us to the tastes and collections of the famous and the obscure. Who shelved guilty pleasures? How-To manuals? Theological works? Scientific treatises? \nJeremy Dibbell serves as Special Collections Librarian at Binghamton University. A member of the American Antiquarian Society\, he has been director of communications and outreach at Rare Book School\, a reference librarian at the Massachusetts Historical Society\, and has been librarian for social media and rare books at LibraryThing. \nTo register: https://caxtonclub.org/event-6465196/Registration \n 
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jeremy-dibbell-on-the-libraries-of-early-america-bringing-historical-libraries-to-life/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T130000
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SUMMARY:Gabe Henry on Enough Is Enuf – Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nThere is no vaccine. It can strike anyone. The chief occupant of the White House. A famous author. A lexicographer. A steel magnate. \nWhen it takes hold the mania begins to fester and then erupts in a messianic drive to invent a new communications method that will require everyone in the United States to unlearn something they’ve been taught (or not) since childhood. \nBefore it subsides it can bankrupt the infected. Expose them to public ridicule. And provide a barrel of laughs to all of us who read about it\, hear about it\, and watch from a safe distance. \nIt’s the contagion that Gabe Henry reveals in his exceptionally entertaining book\, Enough Is Enuf – Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell (HarperCollins 2025). Henry\, also editor of Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats\, will tell the sad tale of how English was mixed in a great bowl into which was dropped Celtic\, Latin\, Norse\, Anglo-Saxon\, and Norman and then seasoned by the whims of Wiliam Caxton. And about the Quixotic missions by the great and the obscure to rationalize it\, as they are consumed by the thought\, “If only everyone would just listen. My scheme makes so much sense.” \nQuick! Register today before our whole website is taken over by emojis! \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. To. register\, click here  \n 
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/gabe-henry-on-enough-is-enuf-our-failed-attempts-to-make-english-eezier-to-spell/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251114T130000
DTSTAMP:20251027T160447Z
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SUMMARY:Sara Charles on The Medieval Scriptorium – Making Books in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nHave 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? \nOur guest Sara Charles has. To paraphrase the movie Pulp Fiction\, she will go Medieval on us. \nBut worry not. Her talents are all for good – particularly as they inform her wonderful book\, The Medieval Scriptorium (Reaktion Books\, Ltd.\, 2024). In it she brings to life the grueling\, creative\, smelly\, artistic\, earwax-laden\, glittering\, backbreaking\, world of creating books fully by hand. \nThis 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. She has appeared at Canterbury Cathedral in the documentary series History Hit\, presents fascinating how-to videos on YouTube\, shares content on teachingmanuscripts.com and continues to create illuminated manuscripts that are breathtakingly beautiful. \nGreat news! You won’t have to find and sharpen a quill\, dip it ink you’ve made yourself\, and copy dense text in order to register. You can sit in your comfy chair\, login\, and register online. No squinting required. \nTo register for this online event\, click here.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/sara-charles-on-the-medieval-scriptorium-making-books-in-the-middle-ages/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251105T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251105T193000
DTSTAMP:20251027T161129Z
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SUMMARY:Lauren Hewes on American Ephemera before 1900
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \n \nIn this program\, Lauren Hewes will introduce Caxton Club members to the Stephen D. Paine Collection of American Ephemera at the American Antiquarian Society\, a national research library located in Worcester\, Massachusetts. 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. \nLauren Hewes is the vice president for collections and Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts. She manages and oversees the Society’s acquisition\, cataloging\, conservation\, curatorial and readers’ services departments. She is also the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts and builds and cares for the Society’s extensive collections of prints\, broadsides\, ephemera\, and photographs\, working with the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC)\, AAS fellows\, and outside scholars to make connections between American history and the visual resources of the Society. Lauren has previously held positions at the Print Council of America\, the National Park Service\, and Shelburne Museum\, and she has published widely on American printmaking and portraiture. She has a BS from Ithaca College and an MA in art history from Williams College. \nRegister today. \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. \nZoom begins at 6:30PM CT/7:30 PM ET. Preregistration required\, click here to register.  \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/lauren-hewes-on-american-ephemera-before-1900-2/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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