As part of its mission to promote the art and history of the book, the Grolier Club continues to open some of its lectures and other events to the public: 

Winter/Spring 2008

Unless otherwise indicated below, all RSVPs and reservations are to be made through Maev Brennan at the Grolier Club, tel. 212-838-6690, ext. 7, or e-mail: mbrennan@grolierclub.org.

• January 8 -- Rare Book School Lecture: Frank M. Turner, Director of the Beinecke Library, Yale University, will present “Meditations on the Beinecke Directorship.” 6 pm. Reception follows. Please note that the lecture will be held on TUESDAY JANUARY 8, not Wednesday January 9, as previously announced.
   

• January 22 -- One-day conference on "Book Catalogues, Today & Tomorrow."

  • Announcement (.pdf file)
  • Program

  Please note: As of Friday December 14, the conference is fully subscribed, and no more places are available.
  
   

• January 23 -- Lecture: James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass, on the Grolier Club exhibition Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer. 2 pm. 
   

• February 22  -- Symposium on the history, technology and conservation of nineteenth-century publishers' bindings, sponsored by the Guild of Book Workers, New York Chapter. Held in conjunction with the Grolier Club exhibition The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse from the collection of Mindell Dubansky. Save the date: details TBA.
   

• April 1 -- Lecture: Margaret Stetz and Mark Smauels Lasner will speak about the exhibition Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection. 6 pm, reception follows.
   

• April 8     -- Lecture: Alan Fern will speak on British portraiture, in connection with the exhibition Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection. 6 pm, reception follows.
   

• April 17   -- American Printing History Association J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture: Sue Allen on A Doubly Fascinating Book: Hawthorne's Wonder Book Illustrated by Walter Crane. 6 pm, reception follows.

   

LOCATION: The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York City (between Park and Madison Avenues). Click here for a street map of New York showing the Club's precise location.

For more details, contact the Grolier Club.