Sponsored by FABS Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies Special Interest Group on Book Binding. February 23, 2026. Monday. 7:30 pm EST. Zoom presentation. Matt Brehe, a Seattle book and manuscript collector will share some early book bindings from his collection with a focus on bookbinder manuscript waste found within. Early […]
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Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS) Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:00 PM This year, we will convene the 40th Akron Antiquarian Book & Paper Show, and we will also celebrate what would be the 100th birthday of Frank Klein, one of the founding members of NOBS. Join us for […]
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
Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial conversation on all things bibliophilic and 19th century! For a link contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
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 […]
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, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Jane Ziegelman Jane Ziegelman, author of the new book Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World, will explore a little known body of Jewish folk literature known as yizkor books. Written by Holocaust survivors, yizkor books were privately published […]
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 […]
by Michael Richards What do you do when suddenly you have a house full of books to deal with? Or maybe it’s just a few shelves full, but you’re not sure what to do with them. All you may know is that they mattered to the person who collected them. […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Russell Hooper will discuss his collecting journey, how he became interested in the Fontaine–Maury family, and his vision for telling a story drawn from the history preserved in the papers. He will also highlight notable individuals represented in the collection, including: Matthew Fontaine Maury, “The […]