American Eighteenth-Century Women Printers

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Graphic designer and letterpress printer Professor Sarah McCoy will lecture on the lively, tumultuous lives of Colonial women printers, who were backbones of their families and communities. Words that they printed and disseminated, amid triumphs and hardships, helped shape the culture and freedoms of the early colonial world. Dr. McCoy […]

Outlaw Printing: How Discontents, Troublemakers, Organizers, and Visionaries Published for Social Change

Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America Sept. 19, 6:00pm-7:15pm Los Angeles/Pacific time Every movement needs a voice, and ever since Gutenberg systematized the concept of movable type posters have been one of the media of choice for discontents, troublemakers, poets, organizers, and […]