Sponsored by The Grolier Club Photographers Make Picture Books: An Under-Explored Illustration Art with Leonard Marcus Children’s book expert (and Grolier Club member) Leonard Marcus will lecture on the under-appreciated genre of photographically illustrated children’s books, subject of an exhibition that he curated at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Brigitta van Rheinberg This talk will explore how Princeton University Press’s Bollingen Series, founded in 1940 and now being rereleased, published hundreds of works by the likes of Coleridge, Jung, and Nabokov and shaped American intellectual thought and cultural life. The Bollingen series, founded […]
Sponsored by the Grolier Club With Glen Miranker In this lecture, Glen Miranker will discuss both the intangible values and the tangible insights that are inherent in some of the holograph manuscripts, letters, notebooks, and marginalia from his collection of Sherlock Holmes material. “When authors put pen to paper, their […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Hilary Davidson looks at the words of fashion in use during Austen’s adult life. This lecture is in conjunction with the “Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen” exhibit at the Grolier Club. How did Jane Austen, her contemporaries, and their fashion media describe clothing, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Gary L. Stiles will discuss his latest book, A Prelude to Immortality: Winston Churchill’s ‘My Early Life’ (Unicorn Publishing). Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-new-discoveries-about-winston-churchills-autobiography-tickets-1661345612449?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Gary L. Stiles, collector and Grolier member, will discuss his latest book, A Prelude to Immortality: Winston Churchill’s ‘My Early Life’ (Unicorn Publishing), which sheds light on why and how Churchill came to write an autobiography that has had global impact. The book has been continuously […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Prof. David Kraemer will explore what the books produced by Jewish communities through the ages teach us about their experiences in various diasporas. Jews have lived in homes around the world from antiquity to the present. What do the books they produced and what they […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event Italian-born, Paris-based artist Raffaella della Olga will speak with Clark Art Institute curator and historian Robert Wiesenberger about her works on view in the exhibition “Typescripts” opening Nov. 22. Raffaella della Olga (b. 1967) uses modified typewriters and multicolor ink ribbons on various […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Jordan Ross will explore the collecting habits of African American bibliophiles in Philadelphia during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bibliophiles and organizations examined will include William Still, Robert Purvis, Robert Adger, William Bolivar, and the American Negro Historical Society of Philadelphia. To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-a-black-bibliophile-tradition-in-philadelphia-tickets-1661331470149?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club A celebration of a new book, 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. A pair of ruby red slippers. A medieval manuscript. A Yiddish folk medicine prescription. These and 97 other objects comprise a new centennial coffee-table-book, 100 Objects from the Collections […]