Sponsored by FABS 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 […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society From Field Notes to Book: Editing for Publication Three Stages of Artist Paul Kane’s Western Travel Narrative, 1845–1848 Manuscript Mondays – Free – Live Webinar Special Date – Monday, September 9, 2024 8:00 PM Eastern Presenter: Dr. Ian S. MacLaren Artist Paul Kane (1810–1871) traveled by canoe and boat from the […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: FRI 9/13/2024 12:00PM CT/1:00PM ET. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. ULCC live attendance–Zoom presentation and optional lunch ($35) following. Reservations required by 12PM CT 9/11/24. Seating limit is 24. Would you like to attend? Click here to register. EVENT DETAILS: September Midday Program […]
Sponsored by FABS The Bindings Interest Group 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! To get on the mailing list contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
Sponsored by FABS 19th Century Group (third Thursday of the month). Congenial conversation on all things 19th-century and bookish. You are welcome! To join the list contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for this live webcast via Zoom. Brendan Dooley, professor of Renaissance Studies, College of Arts, University College Cork, will lecture on one of the Renaissance's great forgotten inventions: regular public transmission of written news. Although exchanging information of general interest regarding daily occurrences has been a feature […]
Sponsored by FABS This congenial group explores all the pleasures and challenges of home libraries: Acquisition; History of Collecting; Cataloging and Photographing of collection materials; Home libraries; Book furniture; Conservation and Storage, etc. You are welcome to join us! Topics for September: Flat Storage in the Library. (art, manuscripts, other documents) Storage for your Ornamenta […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as British historian, professor, and author Anthony Bale discusses his new book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World through Medieval Eyes, with Grolier Club member Gillian Adler. 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, […]
Sponsored by NOBS Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society invites you to this Zoom event Thurs Sept 26, 7:00-8:30pm EST. Charles Dickens in America: Bringing to Light a Previously Unrecorded Gem in the Kelvin Smith Library. William Claspy, team leader for University Archives and Special Collections at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University, will […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The American Trust for the British Library The White Whale: Moby-Dick Illustrated Monday, September 30, 2024, 6-7:15 PM (Pacific) | In-Person and Virtual Presentation 5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program At the time of Herman Melville’s death, in 1891, his novels had fallen […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club October Evening Program It is well known that copper arsenic compounds were used as a green pigment in textiles and home furnishings during the 19th century. In 2019, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, embarked on a study of green cloth covered bindings from the 19th century and continues […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California When the California poet Robinson Jeffers published Tamar & Other Poems, his first major collection, in 1924, it struck reviewers as both timeless and powerfully of its moment. James Rory declared that the poems "exhibit the maturity of a remarkable talent," and the poet Babette Deutsch confessed to […]