The Caxton Club brings together archivists, authors, binders, book artists, booksellers, collectors, conservators, designers, editors, librarians, printers, publishers, scholars, and others. Members from these diverse backgrounds form a community that shares a love of printed, handwritten, and digital books and related textual objects, such as pamphlets, broadsides, maps, and ephemera. The club provides a forum to learn about the arts, history, and technologies of these materials, as well as a space to share the joys of appreciating and collecting them.

Sarah M. Pritchard, President....... Lou Pitschmann, Vice-President...... Leslie J. Winter, Secretary....... Jeffrey Jahns, Treasurer.......
CAXTONIAN.ORG: A PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ONLINE ARCHIVE OF THE FIRST 26 YEARS OF THE CAXTONIAN.
L–R: Cynthia Walls, Sarah Pritchard, and Nora Brooks Blakely
Caxton Club Grants Recipients Artist’s books
The Caxton Club proudly salutes the winners of the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
CHICAGO 101 AUTHORS: Each of the 101 titles is the focus of an essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile.

Caxton Members: Submit your item to our online exhibit, Caxtonians’ Collections.
Exhibit is open to all.




UPCOMING CAXTON PROGRAMS

Caxton Club programs run from September through June with a second Friday daytime program at Noon CT and a third Wednesday evening program at 6:30 PM CT. Please see detailed descriptions for available programs.

Virtual programs will consist of quality Zoom presentations with real-time Q&A features immediately following. All programs — virtual or in-person — require advance registration on the club’s website. This allows Zoom instructions to be sent before programs, and for planning for in-person programs where space is limited. As usual, we will record all programs and make them available for viewing in the Past Programs section of our website’s Members Only section.

Only registrants who miss a program or wish to view it again will be given the opportunity to request a link to a recording of the program.

MIDDAY PROGRAMS

  • Oren Margolis on Aldus Manutius
    03/14/2025 12:00 PM
    Fri, 3/14/2025 Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. ULCC live attendance–Zoom presentation and optional lunch ($35) following. Reservations required by 12PM CT 3/12/24. Seating limit is 24.
  • Ian Gadd on A History of the Stationers Company
    05/09/2025 12:00 PM
    Fri 05/09/2025 12:00PM CT Zoom program and live at ULCC. Preregistration required via website.
  • Zoom – Joseph Hone on The Book Forger
    06/13/2025 12:00 PM
    Fri 06/13/2025 12:00PM CT Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website.

EVENING PROGRAMS

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