Join us for an evening on CONTEMPORARY BOOK COLLECTING on Wednesday, 20th March 2019 at 5.30pm for 6pm. Meet new collectors, hear them describe what inspired them to collect, look at some of their books, and enjoy a glass of wine afterwards. The evening is kindly hosted by Egon Zehnder at their offices in [...]

Barry Taylor (British Library) has reported a new Dee item in Dr William's Library, London. It is no. 490 in the Bibliographical Society's publication of the facsimile of Dee's catalogue (Roberts and Watson, 1990): 'Vite de piu eccelle[n]ti artichitetti, pittori &c da Giorgio Vasari: 4°. 2 tomis flor. 1550.' http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/john-dees-library-catalogue [...]

From time to time the Society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the subject and the furtherance of the Society’s aims. Forty-four awards have been made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929 and [...]

Guest Edited by Mirjam M.Foot Go to https://academic.oup.com/library/pages/bookbinding_contents Table of Contents Editorial by Mirjam M.Foot Some Cuir-Ciselé Bookbindings in English Libraries by E. P. Goldschmidt The Library, IV, 13 (1933), 337–65 Further Notes on Romanesque Bindingsby G. D. H. HobsonThe Library, IV, 14 (1934), 161–211 London Bookbinders: Masters and Men, 1780–1840E. HoweThe Library,V, 1 [...]

The Society is pleased to announce that  Keith Maslen and John Lancaster's edition of the Bowyer Ledgers, first published by the Society with the Bibliographical Society of America  in 1991, is now freely available online, with new corrections and additions by the editors. More information

An updated version of the Index of provenances and former owners from David Selwyn's Edmund Geste and his books (Bibliographical Society, 2017) is now available online at http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/Geste/Provenances. Information about the publication of the book can be seen at Edmund Geste and his books.

The Bibliographical Society will exceptionally consider requests for ad hoc funding to support projects that are related to bibliography. Applications will be considered as soon as possible by Council after they have been received. Click here for further details.

A new version of David Pearson's English book owners in the seventeenth century has been uploaded. See http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/english-book-owners-seventeenth-century

Please note that the Randeria Lecture on Tuesday 15 May 2018 will take place at the British Library, not the Society of Antiquaries.

The Post-Dissolution Wandering of Books from England’s Medieval Libraries.  Guest-edited by James Carley The Library is happy to announce the fourth of its annual 'Virtual Issues' which focuses on the Post-Dissolution Wandering of Books from England’s Medieval Libraries. The articles presented are free to download until the end of March 2018. [...]

The official opening of the Stationers’ Company’s new archive room and reading room took place on 10th November 2017, and  represented a milestone in improving access to its unique and priceless archive, both for members of the Company and the general public. Thanks to the generosity of Liverymen Duncan Spence [...]