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Field Trip to the Beinecke Library and the Elizabethan Club
November 13, 2004, Yale University, New Haven, CT Members of The Ticknor Society enjoyed a day-long visit to New Haven, beginning at the Yale Center for British Art, where a William Morris exhibition was on display. After viewing the exhibition, the group headed to the Beinecke Library for a tour, punctuated by a complimentary catered…
Read MoreJohn O’Mara: “A bookseller who collects…a bartender who drinks?”
October 21, 2004, Signet Society, Harvard Square John O’Mara, of John O’Mara Fine Rare Books, entertained us with the story of his own personal collecting of annotated sixteenth-century books (with examples on exhibition) and how it relates to the current state of the book trade and book collecting.
Read MoreAnnual Meeting and Visit to the Museum of Printing
June 6, 2004, Museum of Printing, North Andover, MA The museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the graphic arts, printing equipment, and printing craftsmanship. In addition to many special collections and small exhibits, the museum contains hundreds of antique printing, typesetting and bindery machines, as well as a library of books and printing-related…
Read MoreAmerican Book Collectors of Children’s Literature
April 24, 2004, Boston Athenaeum Founded in 1986, the American Book Collectors of Children’s Literature (ABCs) Connecticut Chapter is open to authors and illustrators, book dealers, collectors, faculty members, librarians, and others who have an interest in collecting, preserving, reading, and studying children’s books no matter where they live. The ABCs Connecticut Chapter invited Ticknor…
Read MoreSir Hans Sloane and His Printed Ephemera Collections
March 19, 2004, Houghton Library, Harvard University Giles Mandelbrote, Curator of British Collections 1501-1800 at the British Library, spoke about the printed ephemera collections of Sir Hans Sloane. Mr. Mandelbrote is a frequent contributor to scholarship about the history of the book trade and of book ownership, particularly in the seventeenth century. He is also…
Read MoreA Curator’s Tour by Roger Stoddard
February 24, 2004, Houghton Library, Harvard University Roger Stoddard, Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library, led visitors on a tour of his exhibition “Res Gestae: Libri Manent; a Curator’s Choice,” a celebration of Stoddard’s career, highlighting 89 of his favorite acquisitions purchased for the Houghton Library from 1965 to 2003. The exhibition,…
Read MoreA Passion for Paper: The Decorated Paper Collections of Michele Cloonan and Sidney Berger
February 4, 2004, Cloonan/Berger Home Members Michele Cloonan and Sidney Berger hosted Ticknor Society members and friends for a visit to their home in Newton to see their remarkable collection of decorated papers, both historical and modern. A special highlight of the evening was the opportunity to print a keepsake on one of their Har-Ma…
Read More2003 Collectors’ Roundtable
December 2, 2003, Boston Public Library Following up on its previous collectors’ roundtable, the Ticknor Society decided to make this an annual event. Fellow booklovers joined members Kent Bicknell, Victor Gulotta, John Hench, and Charles Rheault in discussing their rationales and passions for collecting western writers on eastern thought; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; American World War…
Read MoreAn Evening with Joanne Dobson
November 19, 2003, Harvard Faculty Club This dinner and talk by author Joanne Dobson was cohosted with the Speckled Band of Boston, a Sherlock Holmes society. Professor Dobson teaches English at Fordham University and is the author of the Karen Pelletier mysteries. Her first in this series, Quieter than Sleep (1997), was an Agatha nominee.…
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