Virtual Winter Visit: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 Following a very successful virtual summer visit in 2020, we are pleased to have organised a virtual winter visit to Mexico. Our visit will take in three libraries and their collections: The National Library of Mexico. National Library of Anthropology and History. Francisco [...]

The Bibliographical Society intends to make an award of its Gold Medal in 2021. Nominations of suitable recipients are invited. For further information, see http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/gold-medallists.

The next virtual edition of The Library offers 13 articles on Venetian printing, selected with an editorial introduction by guest editor Professor Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College, Oxford). The articles were published in The Library between 1890 and 2016. The articles will remain freely available for three months, but the editorial permanently.  To [...]

The Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new electronic publication:   A catalogue of the editions of the Elements and other Euclidean works by Benjamin Wardhaugh, with the assistance of Philip Beeley and Yelda Nasifoglu. Link: Euclid in print, 1482–1703

The Society is pleased to announce a new electronic publication:  Richard Goulden, A Biographical Dictionary of  those engaged in the Book Trade in Kent, 1750–1900. This is a searchable PDF version of the original publication of 2014 together with a file of additions and corrections. This dictionary covers each person's career [...]

Book Owners Online is a directory of historical book owners, with information about their libraries, and signposts to further reference sources. It currently covers seventeenth-century English owners, with the potential to be expanded. The database is a development from David Pearson's listing of English book owners of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries available [...]