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:
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Collecting Victorian Literature (Robert
Jackson)
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The Logan Elm Press (Bob Tauber)
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Collecting Mark Twain (Robert
Slotta)
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Book Design & Printing (Graham
Moss)
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Tales of the Book Trade (Bruce
McKittrick)
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Finding the Right Conservation Solution for
Important Library Collections (Wes Boomgaarden)
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The Art of Calligraphy: A History of Script, Part
I (Ann Alaia Woods)
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Prophetic Whims: Observations on the Future of
Book Collecting (Jack Matthews)
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Between Papyrus and Paper: Vellum Manuscript
Treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library (William Voelkle)
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The First Books Published in Columbus (Charles Cole)
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The Art of Dard Hunter: American Craftsman,
Artist, Type Designer, Papermaker & Printer (Dard Hunter III)
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The History of Text & Image - The Classical
Age: Latin Epigraphy (Charles Babcock) 
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Selecting Books for Book Reviews (Bill Eichenberger)
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Searching for Captain Cook: My Serendipitous
Journey (Ron Ravneberg)
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The Art of Calligraphy: A History of Script, Part
II (Ann Alaia Woods)
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More Than Recipes: A Literary Look at Cookbooks (Peter
Franklin)
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The History of Text & Image - Medieval Latin
Manuscripts (Frank Coulson)
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Collecting James Thurber (Jay Hoster)
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An American Avant Garde: Second Wave (Marvin Sackner)
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Building a Special Collection (Owen Kubik)
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Calligraphy Workshop (Ann Alaia Woods)
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The History of Text & Image - Medieval Slavic Manuscripts (Predrag Matejic)
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Gothic Art for the Industrial Age: The Middle Ages Revisited in
the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (Stephen N. Fliegal)
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The Publishing World and the Future of Books (Susanne Jaffe)
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Conservation of Books and Paper (Harry Campbell)
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The Repair and Conservation of Sacred Documents (Rabbi William Goldberg)
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Art of the Picture Book (Sylvia and Ken Marantz)
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The History of Text & Image -
The St. Gall School and Scriptorium
in the Early Middle Ages (Anna Grotans)
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Collecting Landmark Books of Western Civilization (Stuart Rose)
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Overlooked Authors Deserving Recognition, born in Columbus, Ohio, in the
Nineteenth Century (Charles Cole)
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The History of Text & Image - Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Tradition (Drew Jones)
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Collecting Books on Switzerland (Donald Tritt)
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Comics 100: The History of American Comic Strips (Lucy Caswell)
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First American Editions of Nineteenth Century British Authors (Bill Rich)
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Aldus Membership "Show and Tell"
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The History of Text & Image - Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and Their History (Daniel
Frank)
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Other People's Books: Association Copies and Literary Detective Work (Paul Ruxin)
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
(Nicholas Basbanes) as part of the
Celebration of the Book
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Tanakh and Testament: A Reprobate Tinkers with Holy Writ (Barry Moser)
as part of the
Celebration of the Book
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Opening reception speech of Guild of Book Workers' traveling exhibit, "In
Flight." (Donald Glaister)
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The Hawkesworth Copy: A Bibliographic Investigation of James Cook, John Hawkesworth
and the Strahan Quarto Editions of 1773 (Ron Ravneberg)
(PDF of
Hawkesworth essay)
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History of Kenny's Bookshop (Desmond Kenny)
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The Anti-Slavery Collection of Oberlin College Library: A Monument
to “The Town the Started the Civil War.” (Ed Vermue)
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"The Sting of the Wasp" exhibit presentation, (Richard Samuel West)
co-sponsored event at the OSU Cartoon Research Library
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Local booksellers panel
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The Future of Books (Paul Watkins)
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Collecting Illuminated Manuscripts (John Lawrence)
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Art Nouveau Book Illustration in England and France (Paul Christenson)
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The History of Text & Image - Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: The History of a
Book and the History of the Book (John King)
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The Life and Collections of J. K. Lilly (Joel Silver)
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This Old Book (Harry Campbell)
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The Revival of the Logan Elm Press (Bob Tauber)
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The History of Text & Image - The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (Michael
Zwettler)
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Researching "The Book Nobody Read," Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.
(Owen Gingerich)
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Circus Collectibles (Fred Pfening)
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Benjamin Franklin (Kay Kramer)
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Sentenced to Life: the Books of Christopher Morley (Jack Matthews)
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The Antiquarian Book Trade (John Crichton)
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The Literary Legacy of African-American Authors in Ohio before 1860 (Charles
Cole)
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The Good-bye Door: Researching Anna Marie Hahn (Diana Britt Franklin)
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Early Japanese Language Books (Jim Unger)
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The Enemies (and Friends) of Books (Panel Presentation)
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In Search of Rockwell Kent (Robert Jackson)
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History of Paper Marbling (Ann Woods)
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The Puritan Library (Geoff Smith)
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Graphic Novels (Jared Gardner)
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Rhetoric, Elocution, and Oratory (Jerry Tarver)
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Children's Illustrated Books (David Godine)
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The Folger Shakespeare Library (Steven Galbraith)
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Trade Catalogs (Ivan Gilbert, Geoff Smith)
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Spy Time: Intelligence Holdings at
Georgetown University (Nicholas B. Scheetz)
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Collecting Early Modern Medical Books (Jack
Stalling)
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History of the Chinese Book: Libraries and
Book-Collecting in Late Ming and Qing China (Christopher A. Reed)
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Confessions of a Puzzle Solving Addict (Owen Gingerich)
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"Light" and other editorial cartoons (Richard Samuel West)
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The Book is Dead... It Just Doesn't Know It (Scott Brown)
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Inside the Digital Scriptorium (H. Lewis Ulman)
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Map Collections at the Newberry Library (Robert Karrow)
