ABA-IES Book Collecting Seminar
Dr. Kirsten MacLeod and Dr. Anke Timmermann: Before the Collection: Two perspectives on forming and working with collections
11 December 2018, 6pm, Senate House
Type & Forme’s Anke Timmermann, a historian of science-turned-antiquarian bookseller, will talk about her experiences with rare books collections as a scholar and as a rare book specialist.
‘Alchemical master and disciple’, from Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, London, 1652. Source: Science History Institute.
The Institute of English Studies runs an active programme of lectures, seminars, conferences, symposia, reading groups and summer schools, including the ABE-IES Book Collecting seminars, which focus on bibliophilia and the book trade. Book-collectors, dealers and auctioneers are invited to give a lecture on a subject of their choosing which relates to the practice of bibliophilia. Lectures may be anecdotal, academic or purely for entertainment, with a special focus this year on widening access in book-collecting. With this in mind, the programme is jointly-coordinated and run by the University of London’s new Society of Bibliophiles. For more information on the programme, please see the IES website.