Bibliography Week

BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year in New York City at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book history have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, since so many bibliophiles are in town. Some events (noted in red below) are open to Grolier Club members only, but otherwise you are encouraged to show up everywhere: get a sense of what is going on in the book world, hear some interesting papers, schmooze over cocktails.

Tuesday, January 26

§At Columbia University, 116th Street & Broadway: The Sixteenth Annual Bibliography Week Lecture. Michael Suarez, SJ, book historian and recently-appointed director of Rare Book School, will speak on "Learned Virtuosity, Virtuously Displayed: Cultural Elites and Deep Purses in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Illustrated English Books." 6:00 pm, Low Library, Faculty Room; reception to follow in the Low Rotunda. For more information please contact Gerald W. Cloud.

Wednesday, January 27

§At the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues): Grolier Club luncheon buffet and lecture. Speaker: Grolier Club member Milton McC. Gatch on "Bibliotheca Parisina 1791: A Tale of Two Cities, or An Auction in Revolutionary Times." At the Club, luncheon noon to 2:00 pm, speaker 2:00-3:00 pm. The lecture is free and open to all, but the luncheon is open to Grolier Club members and their guests only, please. 

§At the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues): Opening reception of the exhibition "Mary Webb: Neglected Genius," from the collection of Mary Crawford. Opening 5:30 pm; business attire; Grolier members and their guests only at the opening reception, but please note that the exhibition will be open to the public January 27-March 12, 2010.

Thursday, January 28

§At the Metropolitan Club, 1 East 60th Street (at Fifth Avenue): The Grolier Club 126th Annual Meeting and Dinner. Grolier Club members only, please.

§At Booklyn, 37 Greenpoint Avenue, 4th Floor, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Booklyn's Open Salon is Open! Come by 11 am to 5 pm to check out the newest works of book artists living in Brooklyn and around the world. Founded in 1999, Booklyn-an artist-run, non-profit, consensus-governed, artist and bookmakers organization-is located in the up-and-coming arts neighborhood of Greenpoint (Brooklyn's Little Poland) just north of Williamsburg, and just minutes from Manhattan. Please contact Marshall Weber for more information; click here for directions.

Friday, January 29

§At the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues):  The annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America. Papers from new scholars at 2:00 pm, meeting at 4:00 pm. Speaker: Eric Holzenberg, Director of the Grolier Club, on "The Bibliophile as Bibliographer." Reception follows.

Saturday, January 30

§At the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, South Court Auditorium: The annual meeting of the American Printing History Association. Reports on this year's activities and initiatives; presentation of the Individual and Institutional Awards; news and information exchange, beginning at 2:00 pm; reception follows.

§At the Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd floor: Winter Open House: Letterpress and Bookbinding Projects in Action. 2 pm-5 pm. Come see artists conduct demonstrations, tour the Center’s Jane Mead Timken Printshop featuring the Center’s printing presses and type collection, and view our current exhibitions: Narrative Sequences, organized by Maddy Rosenberg in our main gallery, and two Featured Artist Projects: Leah Oates: Transitory Spaces, and Star Black: The Collaged Accordion.. Staff will be on hand to answer questions about courses and programs. Contact Sarah Nicholls for more details. Information on other Center for Book Arts events and programs can be found on their website.

§At the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues): A memorial gathering for late Grolier Club member, scholar, collector and philanthropist Charles Tanenbaum. 4:30 at the Club; reception follows. Other details TBA.