Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Wednesday, February 22, 7:30pm online only Join Jennifer Larson, FABS Chair and Professor of Classics at Kent State University, for an exploration of miniature and little books. In her presentation, Dr. Larson will use books from her own collection to explore how diminutive format was related to content in […]
Sponsored by FABS Members of this group show and discuss examples of "printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800." Open to all members of FABS societies and their guests. If you're interested but not yet a member, contact us! We meet the second Monday of the month from 7:30-8:30pm Eastern Time. To […]
Sponsored by FABS Interested in the early age of print? Join us on Zoom! Members of this group show and discuss examples of “printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800.” For the meeting of October 9: Elizabeth Canning: “The Worst Fate Bookes Have": How Margaret Cavendish Shaped Her Literary Legacy. Join us to […]
Sponsored by FABS The FABS Handpress Zoom Group meets the second Monday of the month from 7:30-8:30pm Eastern to discuss printed works before 1800. All are welcome. David Levy: Three Pairs of Books on the Game of Trictrac? Trictrac is a French game played on a backgammon board, popular from the early 17th century into […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Clbub Aldus Manutius invented italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since. He also printed the mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the most beautiful book of the Italian Renaissance. In celebration of the first monograph in English on Aldus Manutius in over forty years, Grolier Club member […]
Sponsored by FABS The Handpress Era group meets for presentations and discussion of printed books and materials before 1800. This month features presentations by FABS Chair Jennifer Larson (a 16th century New Testament with hand-colored woodcuts) and Dr. David Wolf. We meet the second Monday of the month for one hour at 4:30pm Pacific, 6:30 […]
Sponsored by FABS All are welcome to join us for an hour of presentations and discussion of printed books and other materials before 1800. The Handpress Group meets the second Monday of each month. In honor of Women's History Month, the March session features Elizabeth Canning discussing A Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke […]