The Ticknor Society


The Ticknor Society is an organization of book collectors, booksellers, librarians, historians, archivists, conservators, printers, publishers, writers, and all lovers and readers of books. We are dedicated to the enjoyment, promotion, and support of books and book culture. George Ticknor used several bookplates throughout his life, including the small engraved one shown here bearing the motto, "Suum cuique," Latin for "To each his own."

Events

  • Ticknor Society Collecting Prize Open for Entries

    • 1 Mar 2025
    • 15 May 2025

    The Ticknor Society is currently accepting submissions for the 2025 George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, and the deadline to enter has been extended to May 15th. The award carries a prize of $1,000, and the competition is open to anyone, of any age, primarily residing at the time of entry in any of the six New England states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont. Entries from collectors residing in these states may be on any topic. In addition, we welcome submissions from collectors residing outside of New England whose collections focus primarily on books, manuscripts, and ephemera pertaining to New England from any period of its history. For more information, please visit https://www.ticknor.org/collecting-prize/ or email ticknoraward@gmail.com.

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  • Show & Tell

    • 27 May 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Zoom

    Bulgakov's novel in Russian and English editions.Join us for a spring edition of our popular Show & Tell event in which the focus of both our speakers will be international literature. Ticknor Society members Zac Marconi and Christine Jacobson will be our presenters, with Zac talking about various editions of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and Christine Jacobson discussing her collection of works by Barbara Pym.

    Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a Russian playwright and novelist. An uncensored version of The Master and the Margarita, was not published in the Soviet Union until 1973.

    Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was a prolific British novelist, and Christine is an active collector of revivals of her works.


    The artist Jacqueline Schuman, pictured here around 1970, created book covers for these and others of Pym's reissued novels.

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  • Annual Meeting, with Featured Speaker Professor Ann Blair

    • 25 Jun 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Houghton Library, Harvard University

    Ann Blair on the steps of Widener LibraryThis year's Annual Meeting, our featured speaker will be Professor Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. A member of the History Department, Ann specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, and her research interests include the history of the book and of reading.

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