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  • FABS 19th Century Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Convivial conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Hosted by Bill Bryson. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • FABS Bindings Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Join the FABS Bindings group for presentations and discussion about the art and craft of bindings. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • FABS Living With Books Zoom Group: Money and Provenance

    Sponsored by FABS Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. This month's topics: (1) What role does money play in book collecting? (2) Do we collect provenance? Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • FABS Handpress Era: Martha Driver on Collecting Erasmus

    Sponsored by FABS "Collecting Erasmus" Martha will share a brief bio of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536) and provide short descriptions of several Erasmus volumes in her collection. These include the first edition of Erasmus’s In Novum Testamentum Annotationes (1542) which has been heavily censored by a very assiduous member of the counter-Reformation, the Colloquies (printed by Charlotte […]

  • RGME Symposium at The Grolier Club: Transformations and Renewals

    Sponsored by The Research Group for Manuscript Evidence and The Grolier Club With Mildred Budny, Beppy Owen, John T. McQuillen, Reid Byers, Richard Kopley, Mark Samuels Lasner, and Mary Crawford Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, a Princeton-based 501(c)(3) educational organization, will visit the Grolier Club for an in-person/hybrid ‘Roundtable’. In lightning talks, […]

  • FABS 19th Century Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial conversation on all things bibliophilic and 19th century! For a link contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org

  • FABS Living With Books Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Join your host Reid Byers and the gang for discussion of the pleasures and challenges of the private library. For a link, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org

  • Mexico City’s Avant-Garde Librería de Cristal Bookstore

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico's first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, textbooks, children's literature, pornographic paperbacks, […]

  • FABS Living With Books: “Oops” Moments and Physical vs. Electronic Books

    Sponsored by FABS Dear Friends in the Republic of Books, Living with Books is a discussion group of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. Each month, we choose a couple of bibliophilic topics for open (and civil) discussion. The next meeting of FABS Living with Books will be on Tuesday, Mar 24, 7:00 EDT The […]

  • Mexico City’s Avant-Garde Librería de Cristal Bookstore

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico's first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, textbooks, children's literature, pornographic paperbacks, […]

  • After Oscar [Wilde]: The Legacy of a Scandal

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Oscar Wilde’s posthumous reputation. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-after-oscar-the-legacy-of-a-scandal-tickets-1978912426338?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

  • FABS Handpress Era: Natural Philosophy Images from Manuscript to Print

    Sponsored by FABS The FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group meets the second Monday of the month for presentations and discussion of printed materials before 1800. This month noted optics collector David DiLaura will speak on the transition from manuscript to print of illustrations dealing with geometry and natural philosophy, using examples from his collection. All […]