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.
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 [...]
From time to time the Society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the subject and the furtherance of the Society’s aims. Forty-four awards have been made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929 and [...]
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 [...]