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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Latest episode

Jun 16, 2026

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Episodes

Zeidberg, David S. - "Growth in the Face of Prosperity: Special Collections at UCLA" 28.08.2019

Lecture 267 (17 October 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Downer, John - "Lecture / Demonstration on Glass Gilding" (30 June 1988) 28.08.2019

Lecture 265 (30 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Landon, Richard - "The Outcast Prophet and Other Tales of Rarity from the North" (22 June 1988) 28.08.2019

Lecture 263 (22 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side. The lecture ends abruptly, but as the recording is nearly complete, we offer it as at least a partial recording.

Belanger, Terry - "Lunacy and Pictures in Books: An Extra-Illustrated Lecture" (14 June 1988) 28.08.2019

Lecture 261 (14 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Oyens, Felix de Marez - "Dutch Book Auctions, 1599–1824" (13 June 1988) 28.08.2019

Lecture 260 (13 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Benson, Charles - "The Fate of the Irish Book Trade, 1801–1850" (2 May 1988) 14.08.2019

Lecture 258 (2 May 1988)

Belanger, Terry - "English Collectors and American Libraries, 1876–1911" (25 April 1988) 14.08.2019

Lecture 257 (25 April 1988)

Johnston, Alastair - "Nineteenth-Century American Type Specimens" (12 April 1988) 14.08.2019

Lecture 255 (12 April 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Hall, David D. - "Readers and Writers in 17th-Century New England: The Vernacular Tradition" 14.08.2019

Lecture 254 (7 April 1988)

Krummel, D. W. - "The Memory of Sound: The History of Music on Paper" (28 March 1988) 14.08.2019

Lecture 253 (28 March 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Willison, Ian - "Printing the History of the Book in Britain" (23 November 1987) 13.08.2019

Lecture 250 (23 November 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Vaisey, David - "The Pleasures (and Perils) of Being Bodley’s Librarian" (26 October 1987) 13.08.2019

Lecture 249 (26 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Schmoller, Tanya - "On Paper Decorating" (19 October 1987) 13.08.2019

Lecture 248 (19 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Dreyfus, John - "A Spectacular View of the Advent of Printing" (12 October 1987) 13.08.2019

Lecture 247 (12 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Rendell, Kenneth W. - "Other People’s Mail" (5 October 1987) 13.08.2019

Lecture 246 (5 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Nord, David P. - "Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American Journalism, 1630–1730" 13.08.2019

Lecture 245 (28 September 1987)

Gatch, Milton McC. - "Signs of Ownership in Fragment Collections: On the Trail of John Bagford" 13.08.2019

Lecture 242 (23 July 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Gallup, Donald - "Getting the 'Dial' Papers Together at Yale" (21 July 1987) 13.08.2019

Lecture 241 (21 July 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Spawn, Willman - "Convention into Style: Tracing Bookbinders" (14 July 1987) 13.08.2019

Lecture 240 (14 July 1987)

Stoddard, Roger - "'Fidèle à Nos Habitudes Laborieuses': Four Variations on a Theme by J.-C. Brunet" 13.08.2019

Lecture 139 (12 December 1983)

Ghosh, Anindita - "Cheap and Bad Books" (29 July 2019) 30.07.2019

Lecture 637 (29 July 2019) Full title: "Cheap and Bad Books: A Social History of Printing and Publishing in Colonial India" An NEH-GBHI Lecture

Mullaney, Thomas S. - "Revolutionary Spirits" (22 July 2019) 26.07.2019

Lecture 636 (22 July 2019) Full title: "Revolutionary Spirits: Typescript Books, DIY Zines, and Other Forms of Unsanctioned Publishing in Maoist and Post-Mao China" An NEH-GBHI Lecture

Karmiole, Kenneth - "Shakespeare in Virginia" (13 July 2019) 26.07.2019

Lecture 635 (13 July 2019) Delivered after the July 2019 meeting of the RBS Board of Directors.

O'Donnell, Heather & Rebecca Romney - "The Right and Wrong Ways to Collect" 11.07.2019

Lecture 634 (10 July 2019) The 2019 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Whitted, Qiana - "Desegregating Comics: Debating Race in Early American Comic Books" 11.07.2019

Lecture 633 (8 July 2019) Apologies for the quiet audio on this lecture; you may need to turn up the volume higher than usual.

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