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
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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 FABS The FABS Living With Books Zoom Group, hosted by Reid Byers, invites you to their lively monthly discussion of home libraries, with all their pleasures and paraphernalia. Recent discussions have included cataloging, lighting, photographing books, bookmarks, and much more. NOTE change of time; this group will now […]
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 David DiLaura will speak on “John Peckham’s Perspectiva Communis: An example of the transition from manuscript to the handpress.” In the half-century after the appearance of moveable type printing in the Latin West, many important, widely used texts on natural philosophy appeared in print. Written in about […]
Sponsored by FABS Nov 18, 2024. 7:30 pm Eastern time, 4:30pm Pacific Richard Minsky will draw upon his exhibition Material Meets Metaphor and talk about choosing binding materials that evoke the metaphor of the text. It will feature images of Richard Minsky’s bindings showing how they began and evolved from […]
Sponsored by FABS Oct 21, 2024. 7:30 Eastern time, 4:30 Pacific time Renate Mesmer will talk about the Folger’s recent renovation and the challenges and improvements of such an undertaking. Renate Mesmer, Conservator for the Folger Shakespeare Library will provide an overview of the preparations made for the Folger’s First […]
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 […]
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 […]