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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Education

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rarebookschool.org

Latest episode

Jun 16, 2026

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Episodes

Bryan, Charles Faulkner, Jr. - "The Myth of the American Historical Ignoramus" 15.10.2019

Lecture 473 (8 March 2004)

Jackson, Leon - "The Printer As Author from Franklin to Whitman" (4 August 2003) 15.10.2019

Lecture 470 (4 August 2003)

Noel, William - "King David and His Books in the Middle Ages" (28 July 2003) 15.10.2019

Lecture 469 (28 July 2003)

Dagenais, John C. - "Medieval Manuscripts in the 21st Century" (9 June 2003) 15.10.2019

Lecture 467 (9 June 2003)

Belanger, Terry - "MA and LW and Us" (5 August 2002) 09.10.2019

Lecture 464 (5 August 2002) Full title: "MA and LW and Us: The Growth of the Rare Book School Pedagogical Collections, 1972–2002"

Gross, Robert A. - "Seeing the World in Print" (29 July 2002) 09.10.2019

Lecture 463 (29 July 2002)

Kiffer, Selby - "Dear Sir or Madam: I Have an Old Book: or, Not Everything in Your Attic is Gold" 09.10.2019

Lecture 462 (15 July 2002) The 2002 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture.

Fern, Alan M. - "The Photograph as Illustration" (8 July 2002) 09.10.2019

Lecture 460 (8 July 2002)

Belanger, Terry - "The Future of Rare Book Libraries Revisited" (3 June 2002) 09.10.2019

Lecture 459 (3 June 2002) Note: this recording is mono track (right only).

Kuhta, Richard J. - "‘Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing’" (27 May 2002) 09.10.2019

Lecture 458 (27 May 2002) Full title: "‘Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and the Rare Book Marketplace"

Shailor, Barbara A. - "Otto Ege: A Biblioclast and Modern Technology" (11 March 2002) 09.10.2019

Lecture 457 (11 March 2002)

Belanger, Terry - "Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way" (7 January 2002) 09.10.2019

Lecture 456 (7 January 2002) Full title: "Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way: English Books and American Collectors in the Later 19th and Earlier 20th Centuries"

Noel, William - "Eureka? The Archimedes Palimpsest" (6 August 2001) 08.10.2019

Lecture 455 (6 August 2001)

Korey, Marie E. - "From Bibliography to Book History" (16 July 2001) 08.10.2019

Lecture 451 (16 July 2001) Full title: "From Bibliography to Book History: the Massey College Press and Other Special Collections of the Massey College Library"

Storm van Leeuwen, Jan - "On Bookbindings: Their Depictions, Their Owners and Their Contents" 08.10.2019

Lecture 450 (4 June 2001)

Allen, Greer - "The Vitality of Fritz Kredel’s Book Illustrations" (12 March 2001) 08.10.2019

Lecture 448 (12 March 2001) This talk was repeated with slight variation as lecture 448.

Viscomi, Joseph - "William Blake’s Graphic Imagination: Origins of Illuminated Printing" 08.10.2019

Lecture 447 (21 February 2001)

Traister, Daniel - "'The Ox-Bow Incident': A Case Study in the Complexities of Book History" 08.10.2019

Lecture 446 (8 January 2001) Full title: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s 'The Ox-Bow Incident': A Case Study in the Complexities of Book History"

Charbeneau, Brett - "How to Succeed in Bibliography Without Really Trying" (9 August 2000) 04.10.2019

Lecture 445 (9 August 2000)

Traister, Daniel - "Hoosiers: Collecting the Unread and the Uninteresting" (31 July 2000) 04.10.2019

Lecture 444 (31 July 2000)

Allen, Greer - "A Scholarly Printing House is Born: How and Why the Stinehour Press Came to Be" 04.10.2019

Lecture 442 (26 June 2000)

Seaman, David - "‘Speaking of my Book as a Machine’: Electronic Paper and Digital Ink" 04.10.2019

Lecture 437 (13 March 2000)

Traister, Daniel - "Put ’em Up: Late Night Thoughts on Library Book Exhibitions" 04.10.2019

Lecture 434 (10 January 2000)

Belanger, Terry - "Oughts: State of the Bibliographical Nation" (7 May 2000) 04.10.2019

Lecture 439 (7 May 2000) Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 435 and 436.

Belanger, Terry - "Report on a Bibliographical Decade" (5 August 1999) 03.10.2019

Lecture 433 (5 August 1999) Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 424, 427, and 430

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