Sponsored by The Caxton Society and the American Antiquarian Society Preregistration required via website. Would you like to attend? Click here to register. EVENT DETAILS: March Evening Program This presentation explores the appropriation, adaptation, and translation of the picture book Michaelmas Day or The Fate of Poor Molly Goosey. Originally issued […]
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Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: 3/21/2023 6:30 PM CT Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. Would you like to attend? Click here to register. EVENT DETAILS: March Evening Program Three Caxtonians will give short presentations of interest to bibliophiles, followed by live Q&A session. […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club March 10, 12:00pm Central Time Join us as Sara Schliep draws back the curtains to reveal the intriguing story of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s past and future. You may already know about its founders, Henry and Emily, but Sara will introduce you to more characters, […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Saddle up as we ride along with a couple of Berkeley grads who became two of the most prolific and successful writers of popular fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. They flooded bookshelves, produced plays, filled the radio and television airwaves with […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium When/Where: 1/19/2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST via Zoom. January Daytime Program Join Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell as she shares an overview of Gerber Hart Library and Archives. Founded in 1981, Gerber/Hart’s collections focus on the culture and history […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and the Chicago Art Deco Society Feb 7, 6:30pm Central Time A central aspect of the culture and lifestyle of the 1920s and ’30s was the creation and consumption of food. You could exist in an Art Deco world where everything from the soup to […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club 6:30pm CT, 7:30pm EST The 1930s were the “golden age” of mural art in the United States. In 1935, Chicago artist Miklos Gaspar was commissioned to paint a mural cycle on all 93 feet of wall space in a private dining and meeting room of […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Jan 13, 12:30 Central Time/1:30 Eastern Time Nick Wilding teaches a course at Rare Book School called “Forgeries, Facsimiles & Sophisticated Copies” and we’ll be attending for an hour or so as he talks about documents that delighted and then disappointed. To tell the story […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Dec 9, noon Central Time There’s an exhibit on at Stanford about The Handmade Book. Its location speaks volumes about benefactors who have helped to build the library. The exhibit is in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing. (Even […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers’ lives and their works? When did the person of the author—both as context and target of textual interpretation—come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development of […]