Sydney Rare Book Fair and Sydney Rare Book Week
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The Sydney Rare Book Fair runs October 24 - 26, concluding this year's Sydney Rare Book Week.
Organized by The Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers with the support of the University of Sydney, it returns to MacLaurin Hall, at the university in Camperdown.
Exhibitors include Ankh Antiquarian Books, The Antique Bookshop & Curios, Antique Print Map Room, Blue Mountains Books, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books, Mark's Book Barn, Owl & Lion Bindery, Rare Aviation Books, Sartoni Antique Prints, Somerset House Books, Sydney Rare Book Auctions, and Wyrdbooks.
Among the program of free talks, workshops and tours on October 24 are:
- Gems from the City of Sydney Archives with archivists Dominique Novak d’Hennin and Naomi Crago, including the marginalia of former Town Clerk John Rae, rare albums of disappeared Sydney streetscapes, and the archive's letterpress correspondence books.
- An introduction to the Carrington Albums, put together while Lord Carrington was Governor of New South Wales (1885-1890) which contain illuminated addresses, greetings and well-wishes from residents, towns and associations from across the State
- A guided tour of the State Library’s exhibition Peter Kingston with co-curator Mathilde de Hauteclocque, focusing on the library's major collection of Kingston’s limited-edition artists’ books
- Artists’ libraries at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, with librarians from the gallery's Edmund and Joanna Capon Research Library exploring the libraries of Australian artists such as Margaret Preston, Grace Crowley and Rayner Hoff
