Rare Book School Lectures

Rare Book School

Since 1972, the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School have offered more than 600 public lectures on a wide variety of bibliographical topics.

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Rare Book School Lectures

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rarebookschool.org

Latest episode

Jun 16, 2026

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Episodes

Schreyer, Alice - "The Newberry: Independent Research Libraries as Bibliographical Communities" 26.07.2016

Lecture 603 (25 July 2016)

van der Vlies, Andrew - "Print Cultures and Protest in (Southern) Africa" (11 July 2016) 12.07.2016

Lecture 601 (11 July 2016). Full title: "Print Cultures and Protest in (Southern) Africa: Bibliography, Anthropology, Ideology, and Aesthetics"

Reese, William S. - "Starting Out: My Early Days as a Rare Book Dealer" (15 June 2016) 16.06.2016

Lecture 600 (15 June 2016). The lecture is followed by a presentation in honor of Mary Gilliam, recently elected president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America

Kelly, Mike - "Samson Occom and the Uses of Bibliography" 14.06.2016

Lecture 598 (13 June 2016)

Miller, Peter - "Making American Literature: Poetry With Footnotes" 19.05.2016

Lecture 595 (18 May 2016). Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon. Terry Belanger introduces Peter Miller as the winner of the 2016 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.

Mole, Tom - "Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Romantic Poems in Victorian Anthologies" 18.03.2016

Lecture 594 (17 March 2016)

Winship, Michael - "Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women" (30 July 2001) 30.10.2015

Lecture 454 (30 July 2001). Full title "Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women: Publishing 'The Scarlet Letter' in the 19th-Century United States"

Winship, Michael - "The Anglo-American Trade in Books in the Nineteenth Century" (19 July 1993) 30.10.2015

Lecture 340 (19 July 1993)

Winship, Michael - "Hermann Ernst Ludewig: America’s Forgotten Bibliographer" (16 December 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 204 (16 December 1985). The 1985 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Dreyfus, John - "The Flowering of Typography" (28 October 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 199 (28 October 1985). Full title "The Flowering of Typography: The Development of Printers’ Flowers with Special Reference to French Rococo Ornament"

Hidy, Lance - "An Artist in Search of An Historian" (30 September 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 198 (30 September 1985)

Carter, Matthew - "The Creation of ‘Galliard’" (5 August 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 196 (5 August 1985)

Kristeller, Paul Oskar - "In Search of Renaissance Manuscripts" (23 July 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 193 (23 July 1985)

Corey, D. Steven - "Developing Special Collections of Fine Printing" (15 July 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 190 (15 July 1985)

Tselos, George D. - "Digging in the Dumpster" (15 April 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 186 (15 April 1985). Full title "Digging in the Dumpster and Other Cautionary Tales of Modern Manuscript Collecting"

Wilson, Alexander - "Toward a Universal History of Rare Books" (8 April 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 185 (8 April 1985)

Berger, Thomas L. - "Two-Letter Words in Shakespeare’s 'Henry V'" (1 April 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 184 (1 April 1985)

Hobson, Anthony - "Appropriations from Foreign Libraries During the French Revolution and Empire" 30.10.2015

Lecture 183 (25 March 1985)

McKitterick, David - "Writing the History of the University Library" (18 March 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 182 (18 March 1985)

Winship, Michael - "Life with 'BAL'" (28 January 1985) 30.10.2015

Lecture 179 (28 January 1985)

Dunlap, Ellen S. - "One Year In: Reflections of a New Director" (3 December 1984) 30.10.2015

Lecture 177 (3 December 1984)

Dreyfus, John - "The Making of the Golden Cockerel Press 'Four Gospels'" (15 November 1984) 30.10.2015

Lecture 175 (15 November 1984)

Urkowitz, Steven - "Voodoo Bibliography: Re-evaluating Shakespearean Textual Studies" 30.10.2015

Lecture 173 (22 October 1984)

Briggs, Carol Reid - "Three Years Out" (24 September 1984) 30.10.2015

Lecture 169 (24 September 1984). Full title "Three Years Out: Reflections of a Young [But Rapidly Aging] Rare Book Librarian"

Leab, Katharine Kyes - "Automation in Rare Books: The Dark Side of the Moon" (14 August 1984) 30.10.2015

Lecture 167 (14 August 1984)

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