Lecture
Tread carefully through the ashes and avoid breathing in the smoke… You are invited on a virtual walk with Alice Ford-Smith uncovering the history of books long burnt in London’s streets, squares a
In this session we will first define the “routes to collectors”, that is where do you find what you are looking for.
Join us as award-winning artist Wendell Minor reflects on his five decades in the publishing world.
2pm
A book signing will follow the program.
2pm
A book signing will follow the program.
The Rosenbach invites you to a conversation with photographer, book artist, and paper engineer based in Philadelphia, Colette Fu, who makes pop-up books from her photographs.
In the last decade of the 15th century, a middle-aged private tutor named Aldus Manutius made the stunning decision to leave the comfortable employ of a noble family and enter the cutthroat world o
In 1616, nearly 75 years after Nicholaus Copernicus’ theories on planetary motion first appeared in print, the Congregation of the Index of Prohibited Books ruled that copies of De Revolutionibus m
Sir Walter’s Scott’s library at Abbotsford was famously home to a literary treasure-trove, a cabinet of curiosities, but what is less well known is the extent to which it contains a fascinating his
Attend our 5th annual lecture celebrating book artists!
You can’t judge a book by its cover, unless the cover is 300 years old, worm-devoured, or from a remote archive in the Mediterranean Sea.
You can’t judge a book by its cover, unless the cover is 300 years old, worm-devoured, or from a remote archive in the Mediterranean Sea.
