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 […]
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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 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 […]
Sponsored by FABS Join FABS’s Bindings Zoom group for a presentation and discussion with Madison Good about bookbinder Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944). Madison will talk about Margaret Armstrong’s background and design career during the Art Nouveau period in America. The presentation will focus on Armstrong’s work as a designer of […]
by Jennifer Larson “Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?” “So easy that to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”–Busman’s Honeymoon (1937) To my mind, only two sleuths in the mystery genre exert a never-ending fascination: Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey. (I admit […]
Sponsored by FABS May 28 (fourth Tuesday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: Living With Books: Hosted by The Private Library author Reid Byers, this is a group on the pleasures and paraphernalia of home libraries. The format for the May meeting will be an open discussion about reading places […]
Sponsored by FABS May 16 (third Thursday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The 19th Century special interest group, co-hosted by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley, offers “a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book professionals.” The format is informal discussion. […]
Sponsored by FABS May 20, 4:30pm Pacific, 7:30pm EST Join FABS members interested in Bindings for a presentation and discussion with Erin Fletcher, design binder and proprietor of Herringbone Bindery, on Contemporary Embroidered Bindings. To join the list for this group contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS May 13 (second Monday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The Handpress Era group (“printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800”) is hosted by Jennifer Larson and David DiLaura. For May we welcome two speakers: Rodger Friedman “Some books wrapped in decorated papers.” I […]
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. ANITA ENGLES :: THE AMERICAN BOOKBINDERS MUSEUM Join FABS members interested in Bindings […]