Sponsored by The Book Club of Detroit Bookseller Sam Gatteno presents highlights from his eclectic collection, including Shakespeare and Shakespeare forgeries, incunables and 16th century books, fine press books, art books, Bibles, and bindings. A past president of the Book Club of Detroit and a well-respected antiquarian book collector, Sam […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club This talk by David Alan Richards, Grolier Club member (and former Council member), will cover centuries of Shakespeare’s First Folios arriving in America. The first made its way to Boston in 1791, and the first offered by an American book dealer was at Astor House […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Curator Reid Byers gives a pre-recorded video walkthrough tour of his Grolier Club member’s exhibition: Imaginary Books: Lost, Unwritten, and Fictive Books Found Only in Other Books followed by a live online Q&A. The show runs in the Grolier Club’s second-floor Gallery through February 15, 2025. Register here: […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Curator Reid Byers gives a livestreamed talk called “Collecting the Imaginary (in which all will be revealed)” related to his Grolier Club member’s exhibition: Imaginary Books: Lost, Unwritten, and Fictive Books Found Only in Other Books . The show runs in the Grolier Club’s second-floor Gallery through February 15, 2025. […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, October 22, 2 PM PDT What bibliophile could resist an introduction to the early history and development of the private library of J. Pierpont Morgan? John McQuillen elaborates on the rich scope of his talk: “Morgan had an exemplary eye for […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our Thursday, May 18 (ZOOM) program features novelist Susan King. She will tell us what motivated her to write a very different (from Shakespeare) version of Macbeth. The result was Lady Macbeth: A Novel. Please join us in hearing about a very different version of […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our next (Zoom) meeting is Wednesday, May 18, and features Elizabeth DeBold, Assistant Curator of Collections, Folger Shakespeare Library. Her topic is Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Harmsworth Collection and other things you didn’t know about The Folger Shakespeare Library. Please feel free to forward […]