May 3, 2008 -- APHA-SoCal
Southern California Chapter, American Printing History Association
Collections Visit #1:
USC Archaeology Research Collection
May 3, 2008 at 1:15 p.m.
In conjunction with our discussion on cuneiform tablets at the recent
APHA Book Club gathering, we have arranged a visit to the Archaeology
Research Collection at the University of Southern California to view
cuneiform tablets. We will be led by Hannah Marcuson, a USC senior,
who knows a good deal about the collection and who is an enthusiastic
interpreter of tablets. These clay tablets, which are around 3000
years old, are fascinating for their use in recording all kinds of
information in Sumeria, site of present-day Iraq.
More Information.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 -- APHA-NY
Gordon Bond, James Parker (1714-1770): A New Jersey Printer on the Eve
of Revolution.
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. Tel.
212-838-6690
Reception and book signing to follow.
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gordon Bond, an amateur historian, is the author of a new book on James
Parker published by the New Jersey Heritage Press. He serves as
co-chairman of the committee working to establish the Woodbridge
Township History Museum and Vice President of Amateur Astronomers, Inc.
in Cranford, New Jersey. Gordon is currently working on a folk grave
marker survey project in New Jersey with Stephanie Hoagland. Free and
open to the public.
June 4, 2008 -- APHA-SoCal
Book Club!
Southern California Chapter, American Printing History Association
Book Club #2 Gathering
June 4, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
We are pleased to announce the second in our series of APHA Book Club
conversations, which will be held on Wednesday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m.
in the evening. The book which gives us a structure for the meetings
is Frederick G. Kilgour’s The Evolution of the Book, which you can
find used on Amazon for about $30. We have made a limited number of
photocopies of the next two chapters, which you can request from
Richenda Brim. We discussed the first three chapters in Kilgour on the Dynamics of
the Book, Incunables on Clay, and Papyrus Rolls at the recent
meeting. The next chapters we will concentrate on are The Greco-Roman
World, and the Codex 100-700, which includes pages 34 to 56.
More information.
Previous Events
April 17, 2008 -- Lieberman Memorial Lecture
Sue Allen
"A Doubly Fascinating Book: Hawthorne's Wonder Book
Illustrated by Walter Crane"
Thursday April 17, 2008, 6 p.m.
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY
Distinguished historian of 19th-century American book covers, Sue Allen,
will deliver the 2007 Lieberman Lecture at the Grolier Club of New York.
Sue Allen is the foremost historian of 19th-century American book
covers. Since the 1970s she has extensively studied these bindings and
taught classes at Rare Book School. Her research, lectures, and writings
have raised awareness and appreciation of American book designers' art
among librarians, conservators and collectors, to ensure that these
fragile items are saved for posterity. in the 1890s, the English
illustrator Walter Crane visited America and was invited by Boston
publisher Houghton Mifflin to illustrate any book of his choice on their
remarkable backlist. He chose Hawthorne's Wonder Book for Boys and
Girls, a sunny retelling of ancient Greek myths. There is
much to wonder about the book's publication history. Open to the public.
More information.
January 26, 2008 -- Annual Meeting &
Awards
APHA's Annual Meeting
with Announcement of APHA Awards & Fellowship
The New York Public Library
South Court Auditorium, 1st floor
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
2 P.M. Free and open to the public.
Business meeting, presentation of awards and reception. Following
reports of officers, APHA's distinguished
Achievement Awards will be given, and
the 2008
APHA Fellowship winner will be
announced. Join us afterwards for a reception to meet fellow members. NB:
The meeting will not be held in the
Trustees' Room as in the past!
Thursday, February 28, 2008 -- APHA-NY
Scott Kosofsky, On Wavering: The Aesthetics, Culture, and Technology of
Once and Future Fine Books.
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. Tel. 212-838-6690
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Reception will precede talk, which will start promptly at 7 p.m.
Scott-Martin Kosofsky, president of Boston’s Society of Printers, is a
book designer, editor, and author well known for his work on complex
books in Jewish studies, art, and music. As a writer, Scott’s The
Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year
(HarperCollins, 2004) was winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Free
and open to the public.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 -- APHA-NY
Romano & Ross: 60 years of Art and the Tipoteca Italiana. Reception
to follow.
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. Tel.
212-838-6690
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
John Ross is a graphic artist and maker of artists’ books. He teaches
printmaking at the New School. Claire Romano is a painter, graphic
artist, and Professor Emeritus at Pratt Institute. In 1991 John and
Claire established the High Tide Press, which issues limited editions of
books designed, typeset, illustrated, and hand printed by John himself.
Since 1998 John has worked at the Tipoteca Italiana in Cornuda, Italy,
collaborating with its technicians to produce several new works. Free
and open to the public.
Thursday, March 27, 2008 -- APHA-SoCal
Book Club!
APHA SoCal Book Club!
APHA SoCal is planning a series of APHA Book Club events over the
next two years which will be tied in to visits at collections which
showcase items we discuss in our book club. We propose to use The
Evolution of the Book by Fred Kilgore, 1998, as an organizing
principle. The first meeting will be held at Kitty Maryatt's studio in
Playa Vista at 7:00. Please RSVP to Richenda Brim by March 24, 2008.
More Information.
January 27, 2007
-- APHA-SoCal
Reception at Scripps College
Scripps College.
APHA SoCal will again co-host a reception with Scripps
College Press at an exhibition and symposium on the long-ranging effects of
Mallarmé's extraordinary poem Un Coup de Dès on the artists' books
movement. Our dream team of invited speakers include Betty Bright, Johanna
Drucker, Judd Hubert, Clifton Meador and Buzz Spector.
For
more information & links to the full program,
see the APHA SoCal calendar.
October 25, 2006 -- Lieberman Memorial Lecture
Henry Morris
"Paper: There wouldn't be any Printing History without It."
Wednesday October 25, 2006, 6 p.m.
Princeton University, 101 McCormick Hall, Princeton, NJ
The
2006 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture
featured distinguished papermaker and printer Henry Morris at
Princeton University. Henry Morris has printed for nearly fifty years as the
proprietor of the distinguished Bird and
Bull Press. The program coincided with other events at Princeton,
including a display of Bird & Bull books in the Firestone Library, and tours of
the Princeton Typography Studio. The lecture was co-sponsored by the
Princeton University Library Associates and was open to the public.
More information.
September, 28-30 2006 -- Annual Conference
The Atlantic World of Print in the Age of Franklin
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
To celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, APHA joined
the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the McNeil Center of the University of
Pennsylvania for a major three-day conference. More information on
the Conference page.
January 28, 2006 -- Annual Meeting
APHA's Annual Meeting
The New York Public Library
Trustees' Room
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
2 P.M. Free and open to the public.
Business meeting, presentation of awards and reception. Following
reports of officers, APHA's distinguished
Achievement Awards will be given, and
the 2005
APHA Fellowship winner will be
announced.
October 18, 2005 -- APHA New England
Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture
Irene Tichenor on "Printing as Business and Art: The Work of the De Vinne
Press"
Edison and Newman Room
Houghton Library, Harvard University
5:30 PM
Irene Tichenor, author of No Art without Craft: The Life of Theodore Low
De Vinne, Printer, will deliver the Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture.
At the turn of the 20th century Theodore Low De Vinne—undisputed dean of
American printers—was known for his codification of printing trade
practices, his technical accomplishments, his scholarship, and his
championing of printing as a worthy calling. This lecture examines how his
aesthetic sensibilities changed over his long career and assesses his place
in the history of fine printing.
September 22-23, 2005 - APHA Annual Conference
[r]Evolution in Print: New Work in Printing History & Practice
Mills College
Oakland, CA
Thursday and Friday
APHA's 2005 conference in the Bay area is among our most ambitious in recent
history. Our keynote speaker, Geoffrey Nunberg, Professor of Linguistics at
Stanford University, will speak on Thursday night and a full panel of
speakers will hold forth at our local hosting institution, Mills College on
Friday.
See announcements and registration
forms on the conference page
for more information and downloadable
registration form
(PDF/100K).
September 24, 2005 - -
Lieberman Lecture for 2005
Gabriel Rummonds, fine press printer and printing historian
"Abandoned by a Married Man: the Long and Torturous Path to the Iron
Handpress."
The
University of San Francisco (Lone Mountain Campus)
Del Santo Reading Room
San Francisco, CA
Saturday 4 p.m.
The 2005 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture
will feature fine press printer and printing historian Richard-Gabriel
Rummonds and will immediately follow the annual conference. Gabriel Rummonds
was proprietor of the distinguished Plain Wrapper Press, taught at the
University of Alabama, and is author of Printing on the iron
handpress (1998) and Nineteenth century printing practices
and the iron handpress with selected readings (2004), published by
Oak Knoll and the British Library. Rummonds also maintains the Hand Press
website. Read the announcement.
May 21, 2005 -
Lieberman Lecture for 2004
John Downer, type designer and historian
"Trash or Fertilizer: The Uses (or Not) of History and Type Design"
The
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
www.newberry.org
10 A.M.
The 2004 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture,
held a bit late to afford a chance to join
other events at the Newberry Library.
John Downer will show letterforms from various sources and disciplines, to
illustrate how text type takes its form from both typographic and
nontypographic exemplars. He will discuss the ways we have come to regard
certain letterforms as archaic, and others as contemporary. His views on the
subject are those of a master sign painter who became a type designer in his
quest to learn more about the structure of formal letterforms and their
history.
More information.
January 29, 2005-- Annual Meeting
APHA's Annual Meeting
The New York Public Library
Trustees' Room
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
2 P.M. Free and open to the public.
Business meeting, presentation of awards and reception. Following
reports of officers, APHA's distinguished
Achievement Awards will be given, and the 2005
APHA Fellowship winner will be
announced. The Individual Award will go to Robert Darnton while the
Institutional award will go to the Bibliographical Society of University of
Virginia.
September 30 - October 1, 2004 -- APHA-Annual Conference
"Picture This: The Art and Technique of Illustration"
The University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
The Raven Press at The University of Delaware
Read about APHA's Conferences and call for papers.
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