Rare Book School

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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.... more

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The podcast currently has 685 episodes available.

Rare Book School episodes:

January 23, 2018 Wolf, Edwin - "Nineteenth-Century American Embossed Bookbindings" (1 December 1986)
Lecture 225 (1 December 1986)
Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in. It also ends abruptly in the 46th minute, but the remainder is so interesting we thought it might be of interest, its incompleteness notwithstanding.
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47min
January 22, 2018 Pickwoad, Nicholas - "More Stately Mansions: Books in National Trust Houses"
Lecture 224 (24 November 1986)
Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
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50min
January 22, 2018 Bryant, Douglas - "The American Trust for the British Library: A Long View"
Lecture 223 (10 November 1986)
Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
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43min
January 22, 2018 Hanna, Archibald - "The World of the Rare Book Curator in the 1950s and 1960s"
Lecture 220 (6 October 1986)
Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.
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42min
January 22, 2018 Kristeller, Paul Oskar - "Manuscript Research and Its Problems" (17 July 1986)
Lecture 215 (17 July 1986)
Note: The audio on this one is rather wobbly. Apologies.
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59min
January 22, 2018 Dunlap, Ellen - "Wheel of Fortune" (15 July 1986)
Lecture 214 (15 July 1986)
Full title: "Wheel of Fortune; or, Strategic Planning in a Small Research Library and a Popular TV Game Show Compared"
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44min
January 19, 2018 Clark, Kathryn and Howard - "Papermakers as Book Designers: Fifteen Years at Twinrocker"
Lecture 213 (9 July 1986)
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35min
January 19, 2018 Barlow, William P. - "The Uses of Antiquarian Catalogs" (7 July 1986)
Lecture 212 (7 July 1986)
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45min
January 19, 2018 Briem, Gunnlauger SE - "Forces for Change in Letterform" (3 March 1986)
Lecture 208 (3 March 1986)
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54min
January 19, 2018 Kidd, John - "Taking Issue with the New 'Ulysses'" (3 February 1986)
Lecture 206 (3 February 1986)
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1h 6min

FAQs about Rare Book School:

How many episodes does Rare Book School have?

The podcast currently has 685 episodes available.