Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial group for conversation on all things bookish and 19th century! For announcement and links to the monthly meetings, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Book Collecting
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolierite Curator Reid Byers gives an exhibition-related talk on “Collecting the Imaginary (in which all will be revealed).” Part bibliophilic entertainment and part conceptual art installation, “Imaginary Books: Lost, Unwritten, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books” features a collection of books that do […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a video tour of the exhibition “Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” with curator Mazy Boroujerdi, followed by live online Q&A. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-qa-abraham-lincoln-his-life-in-print-tickets-1044332595907?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by FABS Join us this month as Dr. Gene Flamm discusses some variations among the incunable editions of the first illustrated work on anatomy – Ketham’s Fasciculus medicinae, 1491-1500. To get on the mailing list for this group and receive links, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program A recent Caxton Club program unfolded like an English country house mystery: The Case of the Poison Pigments, in which the Winterthur Library played a vital detecting role. New to Inspector Winterthur? Well, imagine a 175-room house nestled into a remarkable thousand-acre estate. […]
Sponsored by FABS Fourth Tuesday of the month, 4:00-5:30pm Pacific/7:00-8:30pm Eastern Join the Zoom group that meets monthly to discuss the pleasures and challenges of home libraries. This month’s topics are “bad” home libraries and sound/silence/music in libraries. To be added to the mailing list please contact Jennifer Larson at […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a live webcast as former Grolierite, Robert McCracken Peck, who is Curator of Art and Senior Fellow at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, lectures on books about the natural world from the 18th and 19th centuries that defied expectations by […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club November Midday Program Belle da Costa Greene was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian from 1908–1913 and from 1924–1948 the first Director of the Morgan Library. Though a striking and much written about figure, much of what is known about Greene derives from her more than 600 letters […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian (1908–1913) and the first Director of the Morgan Library (1924–1948). She was also the daughter of two mixed-race parents and passed for white. In the nearly six hundred letters that Greene sent to […]
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 […]