Rare Book School Lectures

Lecture 536 (4 July 2011)

Lecture 535 (15 June 2011). Full title "Victorian Serials: Essential Parts of the 19th-Century Imagination." The 2011 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 532 (6 June 2011)

Lecture 531.5 (10 January 2011). Full title "Books by Rail: The Baltimore & Ohio Employees’ Free Circulating Library"

Lecture 529 (21 July 2010)

Lecture 526 (12 July 2010)

Lecture 522 (7 June 2010). Full title "The Heavyweight Bout: Linotype vs Monotype. The Two Dominant Technologies of Hot-Metal Typesetting Square Off"

Lecture 520 (4 November 2009)

Lecture 516 (22 June 2009). Full title "B. H. B. in Retrospect: Bernard H. Breslauer, Bookseller of the World"

Lecture 515 (8 June 2009). Full title "‘Exit, pursued by a bear': Reflections on Libraries, Wall Street, and Things that Last"

Lecture 514 (6 January 2009). Full title "Bookbindings: Depicted and Real, On Chemise and Girdle Bindings, and Other Special and Plain Bindings from the 15th to the 19th Centuries"

Lecture 511 (21 July 2008). Full title "The Future of Research and Rare Book Libraries (and What It Will Take for Them to Have a Future)." The 2008 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 504 (15 October 2007)

Lecture 499 (12 June 2007). Full title "‘Thou Shall Not Sit with Statisticians': Bibliography, Book History, and the Difficulties of Counting to Three"

Lecture 500 (18 July 2007). Full title "‘All Sorts of Printing at reasonable Rates': Franklin’s Way to Wealth as a Job Printer." The 2007 Sol. M and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 485 (27 July 2005). The 2005 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 480 (6 June 2005)

Lecture 477 (26 July 2004). Full title "Oaks from Acorns? The Historical Turning Points of American Learned Libraries"

Lecture 476 (12 July 2004). The 2004 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 453 (25 July 2001). Full title "The Origins of the Second-Hand Book Trade: The Market for Antiquarian Books in England between the Middle Ages and 1726." The 2001 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture