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

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Jun 16, 2026

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Episodes

Pattison, Todd - "19th-Century Bookbinding Mistakes" (21 July 2010) 09.09.2015

Lecture 529 (21 July 2010)

Russem, Michael - "Postage Stamps by Type Designers: A Primer" (12 July 2010) 09.09.2015

Lecture 526 (12 July 2010)

Kristensen, John - "The Heavyweight Bout: Linotype vs Monotype"(7 June 2010) 09.09.2015

Lecture 522 (7 June 2010). Full title "The Heavyweight Bout: Linotype vs Monotype. The Two Dominant Technologies of Hot-Metal Typesetting Square Off"

Helfand, William - "The Company of Undertakers: Learning from a Print Collection" (4 November 2009) 09.09.2015

Lecture 520 (4 November 2009)

Stoddard, Roger E. - "B. H. B. in Retrospect" (22 June 2009) 09.09.2015

Lecture 516 (22 June 2009). Full title "B. H. B. in Retrospect: Bernard H. Breslauer, Bookseller of the World"

Enniss, Stephen - "‘Exit, pursued by a bear'" (8 June 2009) 09.09.2015

Lecture 515 (8 June 2009). Full title "‘Exit, pursued by a bear': Reflections on Libraries, Wall Street, and Things that Last"

Storm van Leeuwen, Jan - "Bookbindings: Depicted and Real" (6 January 2009) 09.09.2015

Lecture 514 (6 January 2009). Full title "Bookbindings: Depicted and Real, On Chemise and Girdle Bindings, and Other Special and Plain Bindings from the 15th to the 19th Centuries"

Kuhta, Richard - "The Future of Research and Rare Book Libraries" (21 July 2008) 09.09.2015

Lecture 511 (21 July 2008). Full title "The Future of Research and Rare Book Libraries (and What It Will Take for Them to Have a Future)." The 2008 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Stinson, Timothy - "Counting Sheep: What DNA Can Reveal about Medieval Manuscripts and Texts" 09.09.2015

Lecture 504 (15 October 2007)

Suarez, Michael F. - "‘Thou Shall Not Sit with Statisticians'" (12 June 2007) 09.09.2015

Lecture 499 (12 June 2007). Full title "‘Thou Shall Not Sit with Statisticians': Bibliography, Book History, and the Difficulties of Counting to Three"

Green, James N. - "‘All Sorts of Printing at reasonable Rates'" (18 July 2007) 09.09.2015

Lecture 500 (18 July 2007). Full title "‘All Sorts of Printing at reasonable Rates': Franklin’s Way to Wealth as a Job Printer." The 2007 Sol. M and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Wendorf, Richard - "The Scholar-Librarian" (27 July 2005) 09.09.2015

Lecture 485 (27 July 2005). The 2005 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Pritchard, Margaret Beck - "Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America" (6 June 2005) 09.09.2015

Lecture 480 (6 June 2005)

Carpenter, Kenneth E. - "Oaks from Acorns?" (26 July 2004) 09.09.2015

Lecture 477 (26 July 2004). Full title "Oaks from Acorns? The Historical Turning Points of American Learned Libraries"

Foot, Mirjam - "‘Make Haste But Slowly';—Binders at Work" (12 July 2004) 09.09.2015

Lecture 476 (12 July 2004). The 2004 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Barker, Nicolas - "The Origins of the Second-Hand Book Trade" (25 July 2001) 09.09.2015

Lecture 453 (25 July 2001). Full title "The Origins of the Second-Hand Book Trade: The Market for Antiquarian Books in England between the Middle Ages and 1726." The 2001 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Reese, William S. - "Paul Mellon as a Collector of Americana and Virginiana" (24 July 2000) 09.09.2015

Lecture 443 (24 July 2000). The 2000 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Dooley, Jackie - "Mastering the Machines" (19 June 2000) 09.09.2015

Lecture 441 (19 June 2000). Full title "Mastering the Machines: Special Collections Librarians, Technology, and the Future"

Barlow, William P. - "Adventures in Book Collecting" (27 July 1999) 08.09.2015

Lecture 429 (28 July 1999)

Traister, Daniel - "Is There a Future for Special Collections and Should There Be?" (21 July 1999) 08.09.2015

Lecture 426 (21 July 1999)

Allen, Sue - "The Book Cover Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman" (14 July 1999) 08.09.2015

Lecture 423 (14 July 1999)

Needham, Paul - "Can the 15th-Century Printing Revolution be Quantified?" (5 August 1998) 08.09.2015

Lecture 418 (5 August 1998). The 1998 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Leab, Katharine Kyes - "Values and Prices and Books: Oh My" (23 July 1997) 08.09.2015

Lecture 395 (23 July 1997). The 1997 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Rendell, Kenneth W. - "The Changing World of Manuscripts and Rare Books" (17 July 1996) 08.09.2015

Lecture 379 (17 July 1996). Full title "The Changing World of Manuscripts and Rare Books: or Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be." The 1996 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Leab, Katharine Kyes - "The Farmer and the Cowboy Should Be Friends" (31 July 1995) 08.09.2015

Lecture 372 (31 July 1995)

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