Making Books on Main Street illustrated talk on Saturday, January 11
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Barbara Blumenthal
Jan 3, 2020, 8:26:34 PM1/3/20
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Making Books on Main Street:
Publishers, Printers, Bookbinders, and Booksellers in NorthamptonA Public Talk by Barbara B. Blumenthal, Bookbinder and Book Studies Historian
Saturday, January 11, 2020
7:00 pm
$5 members and donors of Historic Northampton; $10 all others
Arts Trust Building
33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA
Free parking in lot next to building.
Historic Northampton trustee Barbara Blumenthal will tell the story, with slides, of publishers, printers, and binders in Northampton from the 18th century to the present. She will concentrate on 18th-19th century bookseller Simeon Butler and his successors; The Hampshire Bookshop (in Northampton 1916-1971); and the ongoing legacy of book arts in the Connecticut River Valley.
Barbara Blumenthal is an independent bookbinder and book studies historian. She edited and co-wrote Paradise Printed & Bound: Book Arts in Northampton & Beyond, published in 2004 for the 350th anniversary of the founding of Northampton. Barbara has lived in Northampton since 1971, when she first arrived at Smith College. She graduated in 1975 with a degree in American Studies, also having studied typography and calligraphy. As an undergraduate, she apprenticed with master bookbinder Arno Werner in Pittsfield, MA. Barbara has been a professional bookbinder since 1976 and has published five works under her own Catawba Press imprint. She was the rare book specialist in the Smith College Mortimer Rare Book Room for 35 years and occasionally teaches classes in bookbinding, book arts, and book history. She is a member of the Board of Trustees at Historic Northampton.
Sponsored by:
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON
46 Bridge Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
in...@historicnorthampton.org | 413-584-6011
Museum Hours
Wednesday - Sunday
12 noon to 4 pm
Historic Northampton trustee Barbara Blumenthal will tell the story, with slides, of publishers, printers, and binders in Northampton from the 18th century to the present. She will concentrate on 18th-19th century bookseller Simeon Butler and his successors; The Hampshire Bookshop (in Northampton 1916-1971); and the ongoing legacy of book arts in the Connecticut River Valley.
Barbara Blumenthal is an independent bookbinder and book studies historian. She edited and co-wrote Paradise Printed & Bound: Book Arts in Northampton & Beyond, published in 2004 for the 350th anniversary of the founding of Northampton. Barbara has lived in Northampton since 1971, when she first arrived at Smith College. She graduated in 1975 with a degree in American Studies, also having studied typography and calligraphy. As an undergraduate, she apprenticed with master bookbinder Arno Werner in Pittsfield, MA. Barbara has been a professional bookbinder since 1976 and has published five works under her own Catawba Press imprint. She was the rare book specialist in the Smith College Mortimer Rare Book Room for 35 years and occasionally teaches classes in bookbinding, book arts, and book history. She is a member of the Board of Trustees at Historic Northampton.
Sponsored by:
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON
46 Bridge Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
in...@historicnorthampton.org | 413-584-6011
Museum Hours
Wednesday - Sunday
12 noon to 4 pm
For more information and to pre-register (not required): https://www.historicnorthampton.org/books-on-main-street.html
This talk was originally scheduled for October 2019, but had to be postponed. Attend for the topic and to check out Northampton's newest arts space.
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