The Caxton Club proudly supports the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Congrats to the winners.
https://themillions.com/2024/09/meet-the-winners-of-the-2024-honey-wax-book-collecting-prize.html
https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php
The Bibliographical Society of America Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers
Michael Johnston (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana), for research on manuscript copies of the Middle English poem, “The Prick of Conscience.”
T. Kimball Brooker/Caxton Club Scholarship, Rare Book School
Tammy Clemons is an early career independent scholar, having received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Kentucky in 2021. Already accomplished in visual anthropology and Appalachian studies, Tammy intends to use her Rare Book School training to “expand [her] potential as a scholar, teaching artist, zine-maker, and cultural organizer.”
Click through for information about the prize and how to apply.
In honor of Black History Month, the Caxton Club releases a program from our archives, Irvin J. Hunt on Dreaming the Present:
Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbg8KStOPik
Caxtonian, Nora Epstein (University of St Andrews, UK), “Visual Commonplacing: The Transmission and Reception of Printed Devotional Images in Reformed England.”
Amanda (Mandy) Choie is an early career special collections librarian at Michigan State University and aspires to use her Rare Book School training to further her knowledge of 19th and 20th century American book history.
This February marks the beginning of the 128th anniversary of the Caxton Club. To celebrate this anniversary, we share this keepsake prepared for our 125th anniversary.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cu0L-dFgTg2t2Tg4JD5GNu08vXftxNQc/view
Click here to read more about the grants recipients and their projects.
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