David Pearson has submitted a new update for his list of English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century.    

The Society would like to bring to the attention of the membership the following conference: Mania and Imagination: Perils and pleasures of the private collector, present and future The conference will take place at King's College, Cambridge 18-19 June 2016. More information is available online at: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/conferences/mania_imagination.html    

Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence has reported a newly discovered item from John Dee's library: a copy of Hector Boece, Scotorum historiae a prima gentis origine, Paris, 1574, in Edinburgh University Library. See the full in the new list of additions and corrections to Julian Roberts and Andrew Watson, John Dee's Library Catalogue (Bibliographical Society, 1990): http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/john-dees-library-catalogue.

Another new item has been reported from the Herzen Library in Kirov, Russia, for the supplemental list of books owned by John Dee. Download the updated list.  Information on the additions to Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson's edition of John Dee's Library Catalogue (1990).  

The “Vittore Branca” International Center for the Study of Italian Culture offers two different types of residential scholarships to scholars wishing to spend a research period in Venice between May 2016 and May 2017: 6 months (PhD) and 3 months (post-doc). The scholarships are offered to Italian and international scholars [...]

G. Thomas Tanselle has been chosen as the recipient of the Society’s 2015 Gold Medal.  A date for the presentation in London will be announced in due course.

The Library is happy to announce the second of its annual 'Virtual Issues'. Each issue 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. This virtual issue looks at Private Libraries and is guest [...]

A new file of Additions and Corrections has been created for the Catalogue of John Dee's Library: http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/john-dees-library-catalogue. Further contributions are invited.

The Bibliographical Society welcomes bequests to support its work to promote the study of and research in historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography.  The Society receives no support from public funds; legacy gifts and charitable donations will secure the future of the Society and enhance its activities. Since the Society’s [...]

Bibliographical Society members may find of interest the 'Language of Bindings Thesaurus' now available on the Ligatus Research Centre website. The Thesaurus is a searchable work of ~1000 terms related to bookbinding and bookbinding structures. For a press release about the project, please click here. To search the Thesaurus, click [...]

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. A Gold Medal sub-committee will be convened in September 2015 to consider nominations and make recommendations to Council [...]