Update to public lectures at the Grolier Club, Spring and Summer 2008

[Eric Holzenberg <ejh@GROLIERCLUB.ORG>]

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for any duplication.

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As part of its mission to foster wider appreciation of books and
prints, this spring the Grolier Club continues to open its lectures
and other events to the book-loving public.  The updated schedule for
Spring/Summer 2008 is as follows:

   * March 26   -- American Printing History Association Lecture:
John Ross on "Romano & Ross: 60 years of Art and the Tipoteca
Italiana," recounting a decade of collaboration with Tipoteca
Italiana in Cornuda, Italy. 6 pm. Reception follows. Co-sponsored by
the New York chapter of the American Printing History Association.
   * April 1 -- Lecture: Margaret Stetz and Mark Samuels Lasner will
speak about the exhibition Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of
Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection. 6 pm,
reception follows.
   * April 8     -- Lecture: Alan Fern will speak on British
portraiture, in connection with the exhibition Facing the Late
Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels
Lasner Collection. 6 pm, reception follows.
   * April 17   -- American Printing History Association J. Ben
Lieberman Memorial Lecture: Sue Allen on A Doubly Fascinating Book:
Hawthorne's Wonder Book Illustrated by Walter Crane. 6 pm, reception follows.
   * May 19 -- Society of Scribes Lecture: Details TBD.
   * May 20   -- Third Annual Bernard H. Breslauer Lecture in
Bibliography: David Alan Richards on his forthcoming Kipling
bibliography. 6 pm. Reception follows. Co-sponsored by the American
Trust for the British Library. No charge for ATBL or Grolier Club
members; non-members $25.00.
   * May 29   -- American Printing History Association Lecture:
Gordon Bond on "James Parker (1714-1770): A New Jersey Printer on the
Eve of Revolution." 6 pm. Reception and book signing to follow.
Co-sponsored by the New York chapter of the American Printing History
Association.
For more details, including how to reserve places, please visit
www.grolierclub.org/Lectures2008.htm.


For information on the Club's program of free public exhibitions,
visit http://www.grolierclub.org/Exhibitions.htm.
For information on the Grolier Club Library, visit
http://www.grolierclub.org/Library.htm.



Eric Holzenberg
Director
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY  10022
phone: 212/838-6690
fax: 212/838-2445
e-mail: ejh@grolierclub.org
website: <http://www.grolierclub.org/>www.grolierclub.org