The catalogue records for volume two of the Society's Cathedral Libraries Catalogue have been added to the national Jisc Library Hub Discover service (which has replaced COPAC). Volume Two contains the continental imprints for books printed before 1701 in the libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales. Information about [...]

Because of the present restrictions on travel and large gatherings, the Bibliographical Society's events for the rest of this season are cancelled. It is hoped that the lectures will be postponed to a later date in the 2020-2021 season. The Society continues to monitor the situation around the coronavirus outbreak.  

The Library is happy to announce the publication of its new annual 'Virtual Issues'. It comprises a retrospective gathering of key articles in a particular field that have appeared in the pages of The Library since the journal’s first appearance. These have been chosen by a guest editor, who has [...]

14–18 September 2020 This intensive residential course is based in the exceptional surroundings of Clare College in the centre of the University of Cambridge. Directed by Dr. Andrew Moore, the programme focuses upon a series of iconic libraries. These include the historic private libraries of Houghton Hall created by Robert [...]

The Society is seeking to appoint a new Vice-President at its AGM on Wednesday, 16 October 2019. Nominations will be considered by Council at its meeting on 3 September, and members of the Society are invited to submit nominations to the Hon. Secretary by the end of Friday, 23 August [...]

The Index to the Court Books of the Stationers' Company, 1679-1717 can now be consulted online. The PDF file for this book is available to read or to download from the Society's electronic web resource at https://zenodo.org/record/3252954. For further information see http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/index-court-books-stationers-company-1679-1717.

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 [...]