Announcing a Special Preview of Summer 2025 Courses

Including Our First-Ever International Classes

Rare Book School is thrilled to provide a sneak peek of our summer 2025 course schedule (so far), which includes classes at two new partner institutions: the University of Michigan and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library (also our first international courses).

The complete summer course schedule will be announced later this month, and applications will open in January 2025. We encourage you to check back on our website for updates.

B-10: Introduction to the History of Bookbinding
Taught by Karen Limper-Herz
University of Virginia

B-65: English Bookbinding, 1450–1850: Identification & Interpretation
Taught by David Pearson
University of Virginia

C-90: Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections
Taught by David Pearson
University of Virginia

G-10: Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description
Taught by David R. Whitesell
University of Virginia

G-20: Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis
Taught by David R. Whitesell
University of Virginia

G-45: Analytical Bibliography
Taught by Stephen Tabor
University of Virginia

G-65: Forgeries, Facsimiles & Sophisticated Copies
Taught by Nick Wilding
University of Virginia

G-75: Paper as Bibliographical Evidence
Taught by Cathleen A. Baker
University of Michigan Libraries

G-80: Identifying and Understanding Twentieth-Century Duplicating Technologies
Taught by Brian Cassidy
University of Virginia

H-25: Fifteenth-Century Books in Print & Manuscript
Taught by Paul Needham & Eric White
Princeton University

H-30: The Printed Book in the West to 1800
Taught by Martin Antonetti
University of Virginia

H-40: The Printed Book in the West since 1800
Taught by Eric Holzenberg
University of Virginia

H-65: Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900
Taught by Matthew Edney
University of Virginia

H-80v: The Stationers’ Company to 1775
Taught by Ian Gadd
Online

H-85: The History of the Book in China
Taught by Soren Edgren
University of Virginia

H-105: The Bible and Histories of Reading
Taught by Lynne Farrington & Peter Stallybrass
Penn Libraries

H-120: Textual Mobilities: Works, Books & Reading Across Early Modern Europe
Taught by Roger Chartier & John H. Pollack
Penn Libraries

H-140: The History & Culture of the Tibetan Book
Taught by Benjamin J. Nourse
University of Virginia

H-150: A History of the Indigenous Book in the Americas
Taught by Will Hansen & Robert Warrior
Newberry Library

H-165: Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching
Taught by Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
University of Virginia

H-175v: The Printing Press in Spanish America, 1492–1833
Taught by Albert A. Palacios
Online

H-190:  An Environmental History of the Book
Taught by Eric Slauter
University of Chicago

H-195: Transmission of the Bible from the Beginnings to 1500
Taught by Peter Toth
Oxford University

I-20:  Book Illustration Processes to 1900
Taught by Terry Belanger
University of Virginia

I-35:  The Identification of Photographic & Digital Print Processes
Taught by Ryan Boatright
University of Virginia

I-50: Six Hundred Years of Botanical Illustration
Taught by Peter Crane & Roger Gaskell
Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)

I-85:  Japanese Prints and Illustrated Books in Context
Taught by Julie Nelson Davis
Penn Libraries

L-25v:  Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books
Taught by Joel Silver
Online

L-30 (I): Rare Book Cataloging
Taught by Deborah J. Leslie
University of Virginia

L-30 (II): Rare Book Cataloging
Taught by Deborah J. Leslie
University of Virginia

L-50: Special Collections Leadership Seminar
Taught by Meredith Evans & Naomi Nelson
University of Virginia

L-60: Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians, Booksellers & Collectors
Taught by Alison Clemens & Lisa Conathan
Yale University

L-120: Introduction to Audiovisual Archives Management
Taught by Erica Titkemeyer & Steve Weiss
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

L-145:  Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & Discoverability
Taught by Lisa Fagin Davis
University of Virginia

L-150:  Modern Special Collections Cataloging
Taught by Brenna Bychowski
University of Virginia

L-155v:  Institutional Book Arts Collections: Evaluating & Describing
Taught by Robert Riter
Online

M-60:  Researching Medieval Manuscripts: From Cataloging to to Cultural History
Taught by David Rundle
Oxford University

M-85:  Introduction to Islamicate Manuscripts
Taught by Kelly Tuttle
Free Library of Philadelphia