Rare Book School proudly presents the video recordings of all eight talks from our Summer 2024 Lecture Series. The complete list, with links, is below. Audio recordings of the lectures …
The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum seeks to hire an Assistant/Associate Conservator to perform conservation treatment for Library materials, with an emphasis on non-bound materials. The Conservation Department at …
Please join Rare Book School for our final lecture of the summer, happening this Wednesday (July 31) at 5:30 p.m. in the University of Virginia’s Special Collections Library Auditorium. The …
Rare Book School (RBS) welcomes to its Board of Directors Krystal Appiah, who is Head of Collection Development at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, …
There is no doubt the early American manuscript is collectible. From autographs of the Founders to writings by major literary figures, American manuscripts fetch high prices and high spots on …
Yang’s talk recounts his rediscovery of an unknown volume of Yongle dadian (known as the Yongle Encyclopedia in the West) in the rare book storage room of The Huntington Library …
There is a healthy amount of writing out there on the printing and publishing process: how authors interacted with publishers, how publishers without presses of their own interacted with printers, …
The Life of Samuel Johnson is often considered the greatest biography ever written. Although Boswell’s book has received much scholarly attention since it first appeared in two large quarto volumes …
Books are immigrants. Their very design encourages movement—from one collector to another, whether institutional or individual, often legitimately but sometimes less so, across borders and across time. These journeys are …
Deborah Parker will chronicle the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950) …
Drawing on his research editing Jonathan Swift’s complete poems for Cambridge University Press and Alexander Pope’s miscellany poems and uncollected verse for Oxford University Press, Stephen Karian will explore the …
Rare Book School is thrilled to announce the lineup for this summer’s lecture series at the University of Virginia. All lectures are free and open to the public. Unless noted, these …