The Grolier Club cordially invites you to
"The World of Bookplates”
-- A Mini-Symposium Occasioned by the Exhibition “Grolier Club Bookplates Past & Present”
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
5- 7:30 pm
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY
Free and open to the public
Speakers:
Alexander L. Ames, PhD candidate in History, University of Delaware, curator of “The Art of Ownership: Bookplates and Book Collectors from 1480 to the Present" at the Rosenbach of the Free Library and co-curator of “Grolier Club Bookplates Past & Present”
Molly Dotson, Assistant Director for Special Collections at the Robert B. Haas Family Library, Yale University, and Curator of the Yale Bookplate Collection
William Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, bookplate collector, founding editor of The Bookplate Journal and author of The Golden Era of American Bookplate Design (1986) and Modern English Bookplates (1990), both in co-authorship with Darlene J. Butler
Reception follows
.Mark Samuels Lasner
Senior Research Fellow
University of Delaware Library
181 South College A
Photographs from the exhibit provided by fellow collector Michael Anthony Middleton
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For rare book lovers: provided by fellow collector David Lowden
· encyclopedic website devoted to the work of Arts & Crafts book publisher Thomas Bird Mosher, recently rebooted by Phil Bishop (Mr. Mosher to some of us!) - www.ThomasBirdMosher.net
· Catalog Raisonne of Aubrey Beardsley’s work - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/arts/design/aubrey-beardsley-racing-creatively-against-the-clock.html?_r=0 AND http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300111279/aubrey-beardsley
· All about the Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition (1910) - http://www.wsj.com/articles/wisdom-on-the-installment-plan-1466191897
Mystery Bookplates
The artist's monogram on both is HC
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