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

Breslauer, Bernard H. - "The Uses of Bookbinding Literature" (23 July 1984) 08.09.2015

Lecture 157 (23 July 1984)

Bond, William H. - "Thomas Hollis: His Bookbinders and Bookbindings" (19 March 1984) 08.09.2015

Lecture 144 (19 March 1984)

Barker, Nicolas - "Thirty Years of 'The Book Collector'" (23 February 1984) 08.09.2015

Lecture 142 (23 February 1984)

Kirshenbaum, Sandra - "Ten Years of 'Fine Print'" (30 January 1984) 08.09.2015

Lecture 141 (30 January 1984)

McKenzie, D.F. - "Orality, Literacy, and Print in Early New Zealand" (23 January 1984) 08.09.2015

Lecture 140 (23 January 1984)

Barker, Nicolas - "Conservation—And After" (1 August 1983) 08.09.2015

Lecture 131 (1 August 1983)

Scheide, William - "A Feasibility Study and Some Tavern Gossip in 15th-Century Mainz" (21 July 1983) 08.09.2015

Lecture 127 (21 July 1983)

Spawn, Willman - "In Which Cities Were They Bound?" (20 July 1983) 08.09.2015

Lecture 126 (20 July 1983). Full title "In Which Cities Were They Bound? The Identification of 18th-Century American Bookbinding"

Bidwell, John - "Hard Times at the Brandywine Papermill, 1787–1838" (14 July 1983) 31.08.2015

Lecture 125 (14 July 1983)

Wolf, Edwin, 2nd - "Rare Book and Research Libraries: Creating an Image" (12 July 1983) 31.08.2015

Lecture 124 (12 July 1983)

Jenkins, John H. - "'The Farmer and the Cowboy Should be Friends'" (11 April 1983) 31.08.2015

Lecture 121 (11 April 1983). Full title "‘The Farmer and the Cowboy Should be Friends': What Rare Book Librarians Should Know about the Antiquarian Book Trade"

Adams, Thomas R. - "Twenty-Five Years at the John Carter Brown Library" (24 March 1983) 31.08.2015

Lecture 118 (24 March 1983)

Tanenbaum, Charles - "A Collector’s View of Rare Book Libraries" (21 March 1983) 31.08.2015

Lecture 117 (21 March 1983)

Jolliffe, John - "Stone Age Thinking at the Speed of Light: AACR2, MARC, and Other Dinosaurs" 31.08.2015

Lecture 116 (17 March 1983)

Kernan, Alvin - "Publishing and the Literary Text in the Age of Johnson" (10 March 1983) 31.08.2015

Lecture 115 (10 March 1983)

Gingerich, Owen - "Copernicus’ 'De Revolutionibus': A Study in Renaissance Scientific Printing" 31.08.2015

Lecture 102 (11 October 1982)

Rostenberg, Leona - "The Library of Robert Hooke" (12 April 1982) 31.08.2015

Lecture 93 (12 April 1982). Full title "The Library of Robert Hooke: A Microcosm of the Restoration Book Trade"

Feather, John - "On NOT Being in London" (31 March 1982) 05.08.2015

Lecture 91 (31 March 1982). Full title "On NOT Being in London: The English 18th-Century Provincial Book Trade"

McKitterick, David - "Deaccessioning at Cambridge in the 1860s"(8 March 1982) 05.08.2015

Lecture 89 (8 March 1982). Full title: "Deaccessioning at Cambridge in the 1860s: Henry Stevens of Vermont and His American Customers"

Barker, Nicolas - "From Codex to Silicon Chip" (20 November 1980) 05.08.2015

Lecture 70 (20 November 1980). Full title "From Codex to Silicon Chip: An Overview of Developments in Communications from the 4th to the 21st Centuries, or So"

Pollard, Graham - "The Scope of Bibliography" (27 November 1973) 05.08.2015

Lecture 8 (27 November 1973)

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