The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the oldest scholarly society in the North American region that is dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts. Bibliography is the study of books as physical, cultural objects. Further, it is the study of the book or manuscript itself rather than what […]
Monthly Archives: May 2020
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Booth #A20 “Les Enluminures” had this book named Book of Prayers woven after illuminations in manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth century which was selling for $55,000.00. This uncommon Book of Prayers is entirely machine-woven of gray and black silk, with a grayish-silver texture to the cast and various styles […]
Every year, sellers from all over the world gather in New York City to show and sell rare items such as books, maps, and artwork at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. On March 6, 2020, I visited the Park Avenue Armory to experience this event for the first […]
With its whimsical and inviting cover illustrations, The Fairy-Land of Science, found at the Grolier Club’s exhibition of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection called Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work, reaches out to its intended audience of children by promising the kind of magic they’d find in a Brothers Grimm […]
RYAN CABRERA IS A MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE STUDENT AT LEHMAN COLLEGE. HIS LOVE OF READING AND CURIOSITY REGARDING HISTORY INSPIRED HIM TO BECOME AN ENGLISH LITERATURE MAJOR WITH ONE MINOR IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY AND ANOTHER IN LATINOS STUDIES. IN 2018, HE RECEIVED THE ROSE AND JOHN HUTTON AWARD FOR […]
SOPHIA ALEXOPOULOS IS AN ENGLISH LITERATURE MAJOR STUDENT AT LEHMAN COLLEGE. HER INTERESTS ARE DRAWING, WRITING PLAYS, AND COLLECTING VARIOUS BOOKS AND ANYTHING “EYE-CATCHING”. SHE HOPES TO BECOME AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER POST GRADUATION.
YENICK M. GONZALEZ WAS BORN AND RAISED IN NEW YORK CITY. SHE IS AN ENGLISH HONORS MAJOR WITH A SPECIALIZATION IN CREATIVE WRITER AND A MINOR IN THEATRE AND FILM AND TELEVISION. SHE IS ALSO KNOWN AS DJ NICKY G ON “THE BRONX JOURNAL RADIO” PRODUCING THE “LATIN LUNCH HOUR”, “THE […]
March of this year, our Book Technology class visited the 2020 New York International Book Fair. Held at Park Avenue Armory, The New York International Book Fair is where booksellers from all over the world fly to NYC to exhibit and sell various rare printed materials ranging from rare books, […]
The English Reformation started in the reign of Henry VIII. This was during the time when Henry VIII decided to divorce himself from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon after she failed to conceive a male child to the lineage. By that time, he already had his mistress Anne Boleyn. […]
The Grolier CIub housed Lisa Unger Baskin’s Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work, that showcased the labor of several women from different century periods. The 49-year-old bibliophile, activist, and collector assembled a variety of documentations of women at work. Baskin’s first collection arrived at Rubenstein Library in Durham, North Carolina […]
