Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Michelle Michel, Reconstructing John Danter’s printing house. Drawing on research at the Huntington Library, this talk presents preliminary findings from a new bibliographical study of surviving editions produced by John Danter (fl. 1591-99) and their implications for understanding his workshop and career. Stephanie Kitchen, [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Harry Spillane, A Maker of Chocolate and Bibles: Francis Fry’s Collecting, Correcting and Cataloguing. Francis Fry, the Victorian collector of Bibles, amassed one of the largest Bible collections ever known. Fry used his vast library to create a series of influential facsimiles, books, and [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Emma Smith, George Hibbert and the Roxburghe Club. George Hibbert (1757-1837) was elected to the Roxburghe Club at its first anniversary dinner. This talk explores his role in the early years of the club, his own book collecting, and adjacent political and lobbying activities [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Emily Wingfield, Mary and her Books: The Literary Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. This paper draws on research undertaken both for my recent book on Scotland’s Royal Women and European Literary Culture 1424-1587 and for my planned critical edition and translation of the [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Mark McConnell: Publishing Early Modern Science: Christophe Plantin’s Strategic Investment in Botany. Naturalists in the Low Countries led the Botanical Renaissance of the later sixteenth century. Christophe Plantin’s publishing a was major force behind this, including the works of Rembert Dodoens, Mathias L’Obel and [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Laura Cleaver, Crime and the Book Trade in Britain in the Golden Age c. 1890-1929. In 1903 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle resurrected Sherlock Holmes, who made his reappearance disguised as a book collector. Two decades later, Dorothy L. Sayers introduced readers to her sleuth, [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Anthony Davis, Collecting English Bookbindings: a half a century of obsession. Anthony Davis has been collecting bookbindings since he was at school, mainly English ones and mainly from between 1650 and 1840, focusing particularly on books which have a story. Anthony will describe his [...]