The Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce its latest publication: The Dublin Book Trade 1801–1850. By Charles Benson. Members should expect to receive a copy in early May. Click here for further details.

Virtual Winter Visit: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 Following a very successful virtual summer visit in 2020, we are pleased to have organised a virtual winter visit to Mexico. Our visit will take in three libraries and their collections: The National Library of Mexico. National Library of Anthropology and History. Francisco [...]

The Bibliographical Society intends to make an award of its Gold Medal in 2021. Nominations of suitable recipients are invited. For further information, see http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/gold-medallists.

The next virtual edition of The Library offers 13 articles on Venetian printing, selected with an editorial introduction by guest editor Professor Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College, Oxford). The articles were published in The Library between 1890 and 2016. The articles will remain freely available for three months, but the editorial permanently.  To [...]

The Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new electronic publication:   A catalogue of the editions of the Elements and other Euclidean works by Benjamin Wardhaugh, with the assistance of Philip Beeley and Yelda Nasifoglu. Link: Euclid in print, 1482–1703

The Society is pleased to announce a new electronic publication:  Richard Goulden, A Biographical Dictionary of  those engaged in the Book Trade in Kent, 1750–1900. This is a searchable PDF version of the original publication of 2014 together with a file of additions and corrections. This dictionary covers each person's career [...]

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.