Book Owners Online is a directory of historical book owners, with information about their libraries, and signposts to further reference sources. It currently covers seventeenth-century English owners, with the potential to be expanded. The database is a development from David Pearson's listing of English book owners of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries available [...]
The Society’s annual summer visit has had to be cancelled this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead of visiting the Library and Archives of Hatfield House as planned, we invite you to join us for a virtual visit to three other splendid UK libraries. · Thomas Plume’s Library, Maldon, Essex: [...]
The Society is seeking to appoint three new Council members at its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 18 October 2022. Also at the AGM James Raven will step down as President and will be succeeded by Richard Linenthal. Nominations for Council and a Vice-President will therefore be considered at the [...]
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 [...]
Cancelled The Summer Visit for 2020 will be to the Library and Archives at Hatfield House and is currently planned to take place on Thursday, 23 July 2020. Due to the current coronavirus crisis and associated social distancing measures, however, we are unable to confirm any further details at this [...]
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.
Cancelled. The Bibliographical Society is pleased to offer a morning of bibliographical training, to be held in Manchester at the John Rylands Library on Friday, 22 May. The event will run from 10:00-12:30 and will provide an introduction to topics such as the identification of bibliographical format, writing a collation [...]
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 [...]
James P. Carley has been chosen as the recipient of the Society's 2019 Gold Medal. The presentation will take place before the lecture on Tuesday, 21 January 2020, at the Society of Antiquaries.
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.