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Since 1972, the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School have offered more than 600 public lectures on a wide variety of bibliographical topics.

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Episodes

Buchtel, John - "'Jane Eyre' Goes to the Rotunda: The Biography of a Classic Novel"

Lecture 488 (6 March 2006)

Oct 16, 2019•44 min

Chase, Karen - "Who’s/Whose Jane Eyre?" (9 December 2005)

Lecture 486 (9 December 2005)

Oct 15, 2019•54 min

Whitesell, David - "Quixotic Typography" (18 July 2005)

Lecture 484 (18 July 2005) Full title: "Quixotic Typography: Composing Maps and Illustrations Using Special Letterpress Fonts"

Oct 15, 2019•42 min

Siegel, Jane Rodgers - "Teaching Penmanship in Ninteenth-Century America: A Comedy"

Lecture 483 (11 July 2005)

Oct 15, 2019•45 min

Noel, William - "Where’s My Towel? The Archimedes Palimpsest in 2005"

Lecture 482 (27 June 2005)

Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 4 min

Huttner, Sidney - "America’s Favorite Book, 1860–1930: Owen Meredith’s 'Lucile'"

Lecture 478 (2 August 2004)

Oct 15, 2019•50 min

Howes, Justin - "Typographical Monstrosities" (11 March 2004)

Lecture 474 (11 March 2004) Full title: "Typographical Monstrosities: Public Opinion and New Letterforms in Late Georgian London"

Oct 15, 2019•54 min

Bryan, Charles Faulkner, Jr. - "The Myth of the American Historical Ignoramus"

Lecture 473 (8 March 2004)

Oct 15, 2019•32 min

Jackson, Leon - "The Printer As Author from Franklin to Whitman" (4 August 2003)

Lecture 470 (4 August 2003)

Oct 15, 2019•53 min

Noel, William - "King David and His Books in the Middle Ages" (28 July 2003)

Lecture 469 (28 July 2003)

Oct 15, 2019•50 min

Dagenais, John C. - "Medieval Manuscripts in the 21st Century" (9 June 2003)

Lecture 467 (9 June 2003)

Oct 15, 2019•59 min

Belanger, Terry - "MA and LW and Us" (5 August 2002)

Lecture 464 (5 August 2002) Full title: "MA and LW and Us: The Growth of the Rare Book School Pedagogical Collections, 1972–2002"

Oct 09, 2019•50 min

Gross, Robert A. - "Seeing the World in Print" (29 July 2002)

Lecture 463 (29 July 2002)

Oct 09, 2019•1 hr

Kiffer, Selby - "Dear Sir or Madam: I Have an Old Book: or, Not Everything in Your Attic is Gold"

Lecture 462 (15 July 2002) The 2002 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture.

Oct 09, 2019•52 min

Fern, Alan M. - "The Photograph as Illustration" (8 July 2002)

Lecture 460 (8 July 2002)

Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 1 min

Belanger, Terry - "The Future of Rare Book Libraries Revisited" (3 June 2002)

Lecture 459 (3 June 2002) Note: this recording is mono track (right only).

Oct 09, 2019•43 min

Kuhta, Richard J. - "‘Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing’" (27 May 2002)

Lecture 458 (27 May 2002) Full title: "‘Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and the Rare Book Marketplace"

Oct 09, 2019•55 min

Shailor, Barbara A. - "Otto Ege: A Biblioclast and Modern Technology" (11 March 2002)

Lecture 457 (11 March 2002)

Oct 09, 2019•43 min

Belanger, Terry - "Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way" (7 January 2002)

Lecture 456 (7 January 2002) Full title: "Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way: English Books and American Collectors in the Later 19th and Earlier 20th Centuries"

Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 1 min

Noel, William - "Eureka? The Archimedes Palimpsest" (6 August 2001)

Lecture 455 (6 August 2001)

Oct 08, 2019•58 min

Korey, Marie E. - "From Bibliography to Book History" (16 July 2001)

Lecture 451 (16 July 2001) Full title: "From Bibliography to Book History: the Massey College Press and Other Special Collections of the Massey College Library"

Oct 08, 2019•56 min