The Bibliographical Society

05/10/2026

Our friends at the Wallace Collection have asked us to share details of this forthcoming tour:

Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.

30/09/2026

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton in their collections, with more videos being released throughout the rest of the anniversary year. Please visit the Society’s YouTube channel to watch the various videos in the series:

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

24/09/2026

Our friends at the Wallace Collection have asked us to share details of the following tour which is coming up:

22/09/2026

Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share the following:

Distinguished speakers will explore the long history of Bible preservation, copying, study, and translation.

08/09/2026

The Society is pleased to announce its latest e-publication : Richard J. Goulden, 'A Worcester bookseller and w**e merchant, John Vine Hall’s business letter book, 1805–1814'. https://bibsoc.org.uk/new-e-publication-john-vine-halls-business-letter-book-1805-1814/

02/09/2026

For this month’s Council’s Choice, Satoko Tokunaga, the Society’s Hon. Secretary for Japan, highlights two online courses exploring how books foster cross-cultural exchange:

Online Courses on the History of the Book Keio University and the British Library have jointly created two online courses exploring how books foster cross-cultural exchange. The first, the three-week course Travelling Books: History in Europe and Japan, examines cultural exchange through books that....

25/08/2026

Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share this:

A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.

06/08/2026

Andrew Honey’s recent lecture, 'Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the construction of English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library', is now available on the Society’s YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJTT-YaNS5E

Andrew writes: ‘It is sixty-five years since Graham Pollard published his pioneering article, ‘The construction of English twelfth-century bindings’ in the 1962 issue of The Library. Drawing on observations made in the course of the Bodleian Library’s current project to catalogue the bindings of English manuscripts dated between 1066 to 1250, I will revisit Pollard’s subject, showing some of the wealth of new information still to be discovered in these complex and fascinating structures.’

Andrew Honey, ‘Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the co...

03/08/2026

For this month’s Council’s Choice, our Past President Richard Linenthal highlights the Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library, the world’s largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts, comprising the massive contents of the storeroom for discarded books and other writings of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Old Cairo:

The Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library One of the jewels in the crown of Cambridge University Library is the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection. It is the world’s largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts, comprising the massive conten...

01/07/2026

For this month’s Council’s Choice, our Honorary Secretary Liam Sims highlights Baskerville’s punches on Cambridge’s Digital Library, which offers thousands of high-quality images of the punches, all freely usable, following study at the University’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and imaging at the University Library:

Baskerville's punches Cambridge University Library’s historical printing room holds a rich collection of typographical artefacts, some of which – including over 3000 original punches used to produce John Baskerville’s type in the eighteenth century – are on deposit from Cambridge University ...