Book history, book futures, book arts, bibliography at the sign of the Scarlet Letterpress // Header: Keith Smith's Book Number 91 // Custodian @LeahAtWhatPrice
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ALT QUEER BIBLIOGRAPHY: TOOLS, METHODS, PRACTICES, APPROACHES Friday 3, Saturday 4, Sunday 5 February 2023 | Free Friday 3 Feb: Papers and discussion, approx. 12.30pm-7.30pm GMT, online, via Zoom Saturday 4 Feb: Papers and discussion, approx. 12.30pm-6.45pm, online, via Zoom, and in-person at Senate House, London WC1E 7HU. - A handling session of materials from the collection of Jonathan Cutbill, former director of Gay's the Word bookshop, at Senate House Library. - Evening reception at Gay's the Word bookshop, London WC1N 1AB and launch of Lurid Editions' new title: Mary Gordon's Chase of the Wild Goose, introduced by D-M Withers. Sunday 5 Feb: Hands-on making session at London Centre for Book Arts, London E3 2NQ, 11am-5pm GMT, facilitated by Brooke Palmieri. Full programme and registration information coming soon: QueerBibliography dot blogspot dot com Questions? Email Sarah Pyke and Malcolm Noble at QueerBibliography at gmail dot com Generously sponsored by @BibSocAmer and @BibSoc.
ALT Corinna Zeltsman, Mexico’s Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom and Political Culture Through Printing. October 12, 2022 | 4pm – 6pm. Rutgers Book Initiative, 15 Seminar Place, Room 6051, New Brunswick NJ.
ALT Panel Book Madness ________________________________________ Panel discussion: Denise Gigante's Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America on November 16th. Jesse Erickson (Morgan Library), Melina Moe (Columbia University) and Heather O'Donnell (Honey & Wax Books) will discuss. Denise Gigante (Professor of English, Stanford University) is the author of half a dozen books including The Keats Brothers: The Story of John and George (Harvard University Press). She is working to complete The Mental Traveller based on her Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University in 2020. All are welcome ________________________________________ Time: November 16th, 5-7 pm Location: Room 6051 Rutgers Academic Building West 15 Seminary Pl New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Online Access via Registration
![A rust red promotional poster for “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press, September 28 – December 23, 2022.” There are nine images, from left to right: Detail from art deco binding made by C. Grandgeorge for Salammbô; Activity for RBS Online course “Descriptive Bibliography: The Fundamentals”; ex libris seal: Shoushan stone cut by Yu Weiguo; Megillat Ester MS scroll; Detail from Ge’ez MS scroll, [Ethiopia]; RBS typesetting and printing demonstration; Detail from the cover of The Moss Rose; Rare Book School (RBS) papermaking demonstration; Diamond-Cutter Sutra MS. [Mongolia]. Photos courtesy of Rare Book School.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdruKUZXkBsG8o2.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A rust red promotional poster for “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press, September 28 – December 23, 2022.” There are nine images, from left to right: Detail from art deco binding made by C. Grandgeorge for Salammbô; Activity for RBS Online course “Descriptive Bibliography: The Fundamentals”; ex libris seal: Shoushan stone cut by Yu Weiguo; Megillat Ester MS scroll; Detail from Ge’ez MS scroll, [Ethiopia]; RBS typesetting and printing demonstration; Detail from the cover of The Moss Rose; Rare Book School (RBS) papermaking demonstration; Diamond-Cutter Sutra MS. [Mongolia]. Photos courtesy of Rare Book School.
ALT Image of purple hand; Corinna Zeltsman is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (University of California Press, 2021), which received the Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History from the Latin American Studies Association. Trained as a letterpress printer, she is a senior fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School.
ALT Image of purple hand; Corinna Zeltsman is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (University of California Press, 2021), which received the Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History from the Latin American Studies Association. Trained as a letterpress printer, she is a senior fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School.
ALT Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America tells the story of bibliophilia and book collecting in mid-nineteenth-century America when the country’s major libraries were being formed. Denise Gigante (Stanford University) is the author of half a dozen books including The Keats Brothers: The Story of John and George (Harvard University Press), a New York Times Notable Book. She is working to complete The Mental Traveller: A Blakean Pilgrimage through Medieval and Renaissance Iconography, based on her Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University in 2020.
