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The American Printing History Association J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture
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J. Ben Lieberman (1914-1984) was founder and first President of the American Printing History Association. Following his death, his many friends raised funds to endow an annual memorial lecture by a distinguished figure in the history of printing or the book arts. Each lecture is sponsored by a different host institution (given in parentheses following the speaker's name). THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce that distinguished historian of 19th-century American book covers, Sue Allen, will deliver the 2007 Lieberman Lecture at the Grolier Club of New York on Thursday April 17, 2008 at 6 p.m. Sue will speak on “A Doubly Fascinating Book: Hawthorne's Wonder Book Illustrated by Walter Crane.” A reception will follow the lecture. Sue Allen is the foremost historian of 19th-century American book covers. Since the 1970s she has extensively studied these bindings, from the early adoption of cloth as a substitute for leather until the dominance of the book jacket around 1910. Her research has encompassed the materials and technology used as well as identifying individual designers and styles. Since 1983 Sue has taught a perennially popular class on this topic at Rare Book School. Her research, lectures, writings, and exhibitions have raised unprecedented awareness and appreciation of American book designers' art. Her insight and enthusiasm have activated librarians, conservators, and collectors to ensure that these items are saved for posterity. In 1999 she received the annual award of the American Printing History Association for her contributions to printing history. In 2006 the Guild of Bookworkers honored the breadth and depth of her exemplary research. In a little red house called Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a book very different from his recent Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables—a sunny retelling of six Greek myths, entitled A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. Forty years later, in the 1890s, the English illustrator Walter Crane visited America and was invited by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin to illustrate any book of his choice on their remarkable backlist. He chose the Wonder Book. There is much to wonder about its publication history. Join APHA to honor Sue Allen as the 2007 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Laureate as she unravels a story sure to intrigue all.
2006 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture Distinguished papermaker and printer Henry Morris delivered the 2006 Lieberman Lecture at Princeton University on October 25, 2006 at 6 p.m. Mr. Morris spoke on “Paper: There Wouldn’t be Any Printing History Without It.” The program coincided with other events at Princeton, including a display of Bird & Bull books in the Firestone Library, and tours of the Princeton Typography Studio. For nearly fifty years Henry Morris has been variously a papermaker, printer, writer, publisher, editor and historian. His well-known Bird & Bull Press publishes books about paper, binding, printing and bookmaking. His aim has been "to provide a worthwhile text in as physically attractive a form as my artistic and budgetary limitations will allow."
The 2005 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture will feature fine press printer and historian of printing Richard-Gabriel Rummonds at the University of San Francisco's Del Santo Reading Room on the Lone Mountain campus, speaking on Saturday afternoon September 24, 2005. Mr. Rummonds's talk is entitled "Abandoned by a Married Man: the Long and Torturous Path to the Iron Handpress." The lecture is scheduled the day after APHA's annual conference. Richard-Gabriel Rummonds was proprietor of the distinguished Plain Wrapper Press and Ex-Ophidia Press, has taught at the University of Alabama, and is author of Printing on the Iron Handpress (1998) and Nineteenth Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress with Selected Readings (2004), both published by Oak Knoll and the British Library. His Hand Press website contains information about printing on the nineteenth century hand press and updates to his books. The lecture will be co-sponsored by the Gleeson Library Associates and the University of San Francisco. Read more.
The 2004 Lieberman Memorial Lecture featured distinguished type designer John Downer speaking at Chicago's Newberry Library on Saturday May 21, 2005. Mr. Downer spoke on "Trash or Fertilizer? The Uses (or Not) of History in Type Design." The event was held to coincide with a number of events at the Newberry Library, and was followed with a panel discussion moderated by Paul F. Gehl, Curator of the John M. Wing Collection at the Library. The timing placed the lecture in the middle of the run of the Caxton Club's exhibit, "Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered," the major bibliophile and book-history event of the season for the Library. The exhibit included numerous examples of historical leaves and modern fine-press typography. The Caxton Club, Chicago's premiere society for bibliophiles, scheduled its major program on leaf books for the afternoon of Friday, May 20 at the Library. There was a panel-style program on the history and modern practice of book-breaking and leaf-book publishing, with speakers from the book trade, the cultural-property-law community, and the library world. Original announcement for the 2004 Lieberman Lecture by John Downer. Lectures in the series are listed with the hosting institution given in parentheses after the speaker's name.
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