The London and Edinburgh Bibliographical Societies, in collaboration with the Rare Books in Scotland network, are pleased to advertise a morning of bibliographical training, to be held in Edinburgh University Library on Friday 26 April. For further details, see

Andrew Dunning has reported that the manuscript Book of St Albans (Trinity College Dublin, MS 177) was once in Dee's possession. It is apparently not recorded in his library catalogue. See http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/john-dees-library-catalogue

1:45 pm, 6 June 2019 to 1:45 pm, 8 June 2019 University College, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT This symposium brings together a group of UK-based academics and librarians, as well as key Continental scholars, in an attempt to consolidate current research, for the first time, on seventeenth-century libraries and [...]

Stephen Schmidt, Manuscript Cookbooks Survey  Knowledge Centre The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Mon 29 Apr 2019, 19:15–20:30   Booking: https://www.bl.uk/events/the-secrets-of-manuscript-cookbooks In partnership with The Bibliographical Society      

Join us for an evening on CONTEMPORARY BOOK COLLECTING on Wednesday, 20th March 2019 at 5.30pm for 6pm. Meet new collectors, hear them describe what inspired them to collect, look at some of their books, and enjoy a glass of wine afterwards. The evening is kindly hosted by Egon Zehnder at their offices in [...]

Barry Taylor (British Library) has reported a new Dee item in Dr William's Library, London. It is no. 490 in the Bibliographical Society's publication of the facsimile of Dee's catalogue (Roberts and Watson, 1990): 'Vite de piu eccelle[n]ti artichitetti, pittori &c da Giorgio Vasari: 4°. 2 tomis flor. 1550.' http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/john-dees-library-catalogue [...]

Guest Edited by Mirjam M.Foot Go to https://academic.oup.com/library/pages/bookbinding_contents Table of Contents Editorial by Mirjam M.Foot Some Cuir-Ciselé Bookbindings in English Libraries by E. P. Goldschmidt The Library, IV, 13 (1933), 337–65 Further Notes on Romanesque Bindingsby G. D. H. HobsonThe Library, IV, 14 (1934), 161–211 London Bookbinders: Masters and Men, 1780–1840E. HoweThe Library,V, 1 [...]

The Society is pleased to announce that  Keith Maslen and John Lancaster's edition of the Bowyer Ledgers, first published by the Society with the Bibliographical Society of America  in 1991, is now freely available online, with new corrections and additions by the editors. More information

An updated version of the Index of provenances and former owners from David Selwyn's Edmund Geste and his books (Bibliographical Society, 2017) is now available online at http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/Geste/Provenances. Information about the publication of the book can be seen at Edmund Geste and his books.

The Bibliographical Society will exceptionally consider requests for ad hoc funding to support projects that are related to bibliography. Applications will be considered as soon as possible by Council after they have been received. Click here for further details.

A new version of David Pearson's English book owners in the seventeenth century has been uploaded. See http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/english-book-owners-seventeenth-century

Please note that the Randeria Lecture on Tuesday 15 May 2018 will take place at the British Library, not the Society of Antiquaries.