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Past Programs

Past programs of the Aldus Society include a wide variety of topics as well as the popular History of Text series. The Aldus Society has sponsored, or co-sponsored, the following programs:

• Collecting Victorian Literature (Robert Jackson)

• The Logan Elm Press (Bob Tauber)

• Collecting Mark Twain (Robert Slotta)

• Book Design & Printing (Graham Moss)

• Tales of the Book Trade (Bruce McKittrick)

• Finding the Right Conservation Solution for Important Library Collections (Wes Boomgaarden)

• The Art of Calligraphy: A History of Script, Part I (Ann Alaia Woods)

• Prophetic Whims: Observations on the Future of Book Collecting (Jack Matthews)

• Between Papyrus and Paper: Vellum Manuscript Treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library (William Voelkle)

• The First Books Published in Columbus (Charles Cole)

• The Art of Dard Hunter: American Craftsman, Artist, Type Designer, Papermaker & Printer (Dard Hunter III)

• The History of Text & Image - The Classical Age: Latin Epigraphy (Charles Babcock) 

• Selecting Books for Book Reviews (Bill Eichenberger)

• Searching for Captain Cook: My Serendipitous Journey (Ron Ravneberg)

• The Art of Calligraphy: A History of Script, Part II (Ann Alaia Woods)

• More Than Recipes: A Literary Look at Cookbooks (Peter Franklin)

• The History of Text & Image - Medieval Latin Manuscripts (Frank Coulson)

• Collecting James Thurber (Jay Hoster)

• An American Avant Garde: Second Wave (Marvin Sackner)

• Building a Special Collection (Owen Kubik)

• Calligraphy Workshop (Ann Alaia Woods)

• The History of Text & Image - Medieval Slavic Manuscripts (Predrag Matejic)

• Gothic Art for the Industrial Age: The Middle Ages Revisited in the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (Stephen N. Fliegal)

• The Publishing World and the Future of Books (Susanne Jaffe)

• Conservation of Books and Paper (Harry Campbell)

• The Repair and Conservation of Sacred Documents (Rabbi William Goldberg)

• Art of the Picture Book (Sylvia and Ken Marantz)

• The History of Text & Image - The St. Gall School and Scriptorium in the Early Middle Ages (Anna Grotans)

• Collecting Landmark Books of Western Civilization (Stuart Rose)

• Overlooked Authors Deserving Recognition, born in Columbus, Ohio, in the Nineteenth Century (Charles Cole)

• The History of Text & Image - Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Tradition (Drew Jones)

• Collecting Books on Switzerland (Donald Tritt)

• Comics 100: The History of American Comic Strips (Lucy Caswell)

• First American Editions of Nineteenth Century British Authors (Bill Rich)

• Aldus Membership "Show and Tell"

• The History of Text & Image - Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and Their History (Daniel Frank)

• Other People's Books: Association Copies and Literary Detective Work (Paul Ruxin)

• A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World (Nicholas Basbanes) as part of the Celebration of the Book

• Tanakh and Testament: A Reprobate Tinkers with Holy Writ (Barry Moser) as part of the Celebration of the Book

• Opening reception speech of Guild of Book Workers' traveling exhibit, "In Flight." (Donald Glaister)

• The Hawkesworth Copy: A Bibliographic Investigation of James Cook, John Hawkesworth and the Strahan Quarto Editions of 1773 (Ron Ravneberg) (PDF of Hawkesworth essay)

• History of Kenny's Bookshop (Desmond Kenny)

• The Anti-Slavery Collection of Oberlin College Library: A Monument to “The Town the Started the Civil War.” (Ed Vermue)

• "The Sting of the Wasp" exhibit presentation, (Richard Samuel West) co-sponsored event at the OSU Cartoon Research Library

• Local booksellers panel

• The Future of Books (Paul Watkins)

• Collecting Illuminated Manuscripts (John Lawrence)

• Art Nouveau Book Illustration in England and France (Paul Christenson)

• The History of Text & Image - Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: The History of a Book and the History of the Book (John King)

• The Life and Collections of J. K. Lilly (Joel Silver)

• This Old Book (Harry Campbell)

• The Revival of the Logan Elm Press (Bob Tauber)

• The History of Text & Image - The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (Michael Zwettler)

• Researching "The Book Nobody Read," Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. (Owen Gingerich)

• Circus Collectibles (Fred Pfening)

• Benjamin Franklin (Kay Kramer)

• Sentenced to Life: the Books of Christopher Morley (Jack Matthews)

• The Antiquarian Book Trade (John Crichton)

• The Literary Legacy of African-American Authors in Ohio before 1860 (Charles Cole)

• The Good-bye Door: Researching Anna Marie Hahn (Diana Britt Franklin)

• Early Japanese Language Books (Jim Unger)

• The Enemies (and Friends) of Books (Panel Presentation)

• In Search of Rockwell Kent (Robert Jackson)

• History of Paper Marbling (Ann Woods)

• The Puritan Library (Geoff Smith)

• Graphic Novels (Jared Gardner)

• Rhetoric, Elocution, and Oratory (Jerry Tarver)

• Children's Illustrated Books (David Godine)

• The Folger Shakespeare Library (Steven Galbraith)

Other programs included "Aldus Collects" collaborative presentations by members, hands-on workshops, field trips to book-related sites, silent auctions, and special visits to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection of The Ohio State University.

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