The Society's latest publication was launched on Thursday 28 September 2017 with a reception at Salisbury Cathedral hosted by the acting Dean and the Cathedral Archivist. All members of the Society will have received copies of the book.  For further information, see Edmund Geste and his books. The full catalogue [...]

The Society's library has recently been moved from the University of London to the University of Essex where the books will soon be available for consultation again. Please note that the move of the library means that members of the Society can no longer gain access to Senate House Library [...]

The Society's Annual General Meeting will be held at The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 October 2017.

Our next Virtual Issue is up and running: an editorial and nine articles on 'The Library On Shakespeare', guest-edited by Eric Rasmussen.  https://academic.oup.com/library/pages/shakespearevi

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.