📝Reviewed in PBSA: Rebecca Romney's book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend 📖 Read Stuart Bennett's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741511 #BookReview

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Kate Loveman's book, The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary 📖 Read David A. Brewer's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741427 #BookReview #Bibliography

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Mark Alan Mattes, ed., Handwriting in Early America: A Media History 📖 Read Tracy Floreani's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741428 #BookReview #Bibliography

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Renske A. Hoff's book, Involving Readers: Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546) 📖 Read Christopher Peppel's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741484

📖 How Comparative Studies of East Asia’s Bibliographical Traditions Could Transform Our History of the Book and History of Knowledge📖 Learn more in Wiebke Denecke's Reflection in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link to latest issue in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741579

📖 Printing the Waldseemüller 1507 and 1516 World Maps 📖 Learn more in Domenico Bertoloni Meli's article in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741326

📖 An “Authentick” Life of Sally Salisbury: The Implication of Edmund Curll, Thomas Payne, and Other Booksellers 📖 Learn more in Pat Rogers's article in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741328

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for upcoming events in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 1 July (1 week away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

📘The June issue of PBSA is here! Members and subscribers keep an eye on your mailbox 📬 and don't forget you can access the electronic edition right now! All BSA members get PBSA for free - Link in Bio to join today or login to access the digital edition. https://bit.ly/bsa-membership-benefits

We are proud to once again co-sponsor the American Antiquarian Society's annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture, delivered this year by Phillip Round. Join AAS next Thursday, 24 June, at 7pm Eastern, either in person or virtually! 🔗Registration links in bio

The 2027 New Scholars application is now open! Each year, three New Scholars receive a cash award of $1,000, a $500 travel stipend and the opportunity to present their work. Apply by 16 September 2026. BSA membership is not required for New Scholars Program applicants. Link in bio to learn more.

Attending the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section conference later this month? Don’t miss the virtual BSA panel on June 25th organized by BSA-RBMS Liaison Jose Guerrero and featuring BSA Secretary Meghan Constantinou! 🔗 Link to register in bio #RBMS2026

Double Your Impact until 31 May! We're just $4,791 away from our goal, and for the next 6 days each donation goes twice as far. Thanks to matching pledges by the BSA Council in Memory of Joan M. Friedman, every dollar you donate will be matched 1:1, up to $6,000. 🔗 bibsocamer.org/donate

Couldn't join us for last week's webinar with 2025 Justin G. Schiller Prize winner Elizabeth Hoiem? The recording is now available on the BSA YouTube channel! Access the video here: https://bit.ly/tinker2learn

Double Your Impact until 31 May! We're just $5,000 away from our goal, and for the next 10 days each donation goes twice as far. Thanks to matching pledges by the BSA Council in Memory of Joan M. Friedman, every dollar you donate will be matched 1:1, up to $6,000.  🔗 https://bibsocamer.org/donate

PBSA is always open for submissions! Email [email protected] for info. ✒️📑📖

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this hybrid conference. The event brings into conversation specialists in archives, libraries and museums, with scholars of medieval records and early modern books. 🔗Link to learn more and register for in person or virtual attendance in bio.

Thanks to a generous matching gift pledged by the BSA Council in Memory of Joan M. Friedman, every dollar you donate will be matched 1:1, up to $6,000. This means your contribution goes twice as far in supporting the future of bibliography. 🔗 https://bibsocamer.org/donate

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Glyn Davis and Laura Guy's book, Queer Print in Europe 📖 Read Malcolm Noble's full review in the March 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740107 #BookReview #Bibliography

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage's book, Printing Colour 1700–1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions 📖 Read Finch Collins's full review in the March 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740106

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for upcoming events in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 1 July (11 weeks away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

We are excited to share this update from recipient of the 2025 Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas, Mitchell Edwards! Learn more about his project, Movement Literatures in the Postwar U.S. Literary Field, by swiping through the images.

One Week Away! Join us for a special virtual event as part of our 2026 Spring Sprint! Dr. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem, winner of the 2025 Justin G. Schiller Prize, will be interviewed by Laura E. Wasowicz, Curator of Children’s Literature at the American Antiquarian Society. Register via link in bio🔗

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Andrew Hui's book, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries 📖 Read Alice Wickenden's full review in the March 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740149 #BookReview #Bibliography

Just 10 days left to claim one of our limited-edition letterpress notebooks! These notebooks, specially commissioned to celebrate our commitment to the book as both a craft and an object of study, are a special thank you to the first 50 people who contribute $125 or more before 11 May.

Join us for a special virtual fundraising event as part of our 2026 Spring Sprint! Dr. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem, winner of the 2025 Justin G. Schiller Prize, will be interviewed by Laura E. Wasowicz, Curator of Children’s Literature at the American Antiquarian Society. Register via link in bio🔗

📖 Binding Rhythms: Materiality, Poetics, and Periodicity in Medieval Japanese Books 📖 Learn more in Kristopher W. Kersey's Bibliographical Note in the March 2026 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗

A few spots left👋Join the BSA Events Planning Committee for a special opportunity to explore the NYPL's collections on 1 May! If you will be in New York for the ABAA Book Fair, we hope you will join us📚 🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there

Just a few spots left! Step into the world of rare books and manuscripts at the 66th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair!📚✨Join one of BSA's guided tours, where you'll meet esteemed BSA-member booksellers and delve into the art of book collecting. Newcomers are warmly welcome! Link in bio

📖 Leona Rostenberg and the career of “Robert Stephens, Messenger of the Press” 📖 Learn more in Tom Lockwood's Bibliographical Note in the March 2026 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

BSA's RBMS Liaison Jose Guerrero is happy to announce the return of the LEAB Exhibition Award! Submissions due by May 1. Learn more: www.ala.org/acrl/awards/... @rbmsinfo.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

📖Talking Books: The Paratextual Communication between Edward P. Jones, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin📖 Learn more in Dustin Breitenwischer's article in the March 2026 issue of PBSA - Link in Bio🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739947

Our Spring Sprint Fundraiser has launched! As a special thank you to early donors, the first 50 people who contribute $125 or more by 11 May will receive a limited-edition letterpress notebooks, specially commissioned to celebrate our commitment to the book as both a craft and an object of study.

The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research. #TalkAboutHumanities

📖 Manuscript Collecting as Social Prestige in Quattrocento Italy: The Case of Tommaso Spinelli 📖 Learn more in Carson Koepke's article in the March 2026 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740105

We are now accepting submissions for the Mitchell Prize for research on British serials! 📖🏆 Awarded every three years, the prize brings a cash award 💵of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society. Link to learn more and submit in bio 🔗

📘The March issue of PBSA is here! Members and subscribers keep an eye on your mailbox 📬 and don't forget you can access the electronic edition right now! All BSA members get PBSA for free - Link in Bio to join today or login to access the digital edition. https://bit.ly/bsa-membership-benefits

🚨UPDATED TIME 👋 Join the BSA Events Planning Committee for a special opportunity to explore the NYPL's collections on 1 May! If you will be in New York for the ABAA Book Fair, we hope you will join us 📚 🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there

Join two curators from The Morgan Library & Museum, Joshua O’Driscoll & Frank Trujillo, for a conversation about the origins of Tarot in Renaissance Italy and the cards’ ongoing relevance as a source for artists. Learn more at the link in bio #NYIABF26 | #AntiquarianBookFair

Step into the world of rare books and manuscripts at the 66th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair! 📚✨ Join one of BSA's two exclusive guided tours, where you'll meet esteemed BSA-member booksellers and delve into the art of book collecting. Newcomers are warmly welcome!

👋 Join the BSA Events Planning Committee for a special opportunity to explore the NYPL's collections on 1 May! If you will be in New York for the ABAA Book Fair, we hope you will join us 📚 🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there!

We are pleased to share this announcement of the publication of "Incunabula in Maltese Libraries," co-edited by 2022 Peck-Stacpoole Fellow Dr Anna Scala! For a limited period, the book may be purchased at a special discounted price: https://bit.ly/scala2022 #Bibliography #Research #Fellowships

👋 Join the BSA for a guided tour of the 5 College Bunker in Amherst, MA on 20 April! The tour will be followed by a reception. This in-person event is organized by the BSA Events Planning Committee. 🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there!

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this hybrid symposium, organized in part by 2026 New Scholar Mindi Zhang, bringing together librarians, archivists, and curators across the country to discuss their ongoing work with East Asian and Southeast Asian collections. 🔗Link to learn more in bio

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this live performance of Hildegard von Bingen chants preceded by a talk by the Eastman School of Music's Dr. Honey Meconi on the connection between the chant manuscripts and their performance. Free and open to the public! 🔗Link to learn more in bio

We want to express our gratitude for the support we received this year from our members, partnering professional organizations and learned societies. All of these bookish folks support the work of ethical selling, studying, and preserving of rare materials and we encourage you to explore their work.

More thanks to the generous sponsors of our Annual Meeting! We want to shout out to our sponsor institutions who spread appreciation of books and ephemera and make them more accessible to the public, whether through education, publications, or collections and exhibitions. Thanks for all you do!

Many thanks to the generous sponsors of our Annual Meeting in January! In this post we're highlighting our bookseller sponsors. Please check out their rare book and ephemera offerings by visiting their websites and shops!

The 2026 Keynote Lecture from the BSA Annual Meeting is now available to all on our YouTube Channel! Dr. Benedict's engaging lecture explores how piracy has not only shaped the circulation of global literature in Latin America, but also become a constitutive feature of its publishing ecosystem.

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required. 🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio