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American Antiquarian Society
www.americanantiquarian.org
American Printing History Association
www.printinghistory.org
Association for Documentary Editing
etext.lib.virginia.edu/ade
Bibliographical Society
www.bibsoc.org.uk
Founded in 1892, the Bibliographical Society is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history. The
objectives of the Society are:
Bibliographical Society of America
www.bibsocamer.org
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and
manuscripts as physical objects. It was organized in 1904 and incorporated in 1927 with the principal objectives of promoting
bibliographical research and issuing bibliographical publications. These objectives have been and continue to be accomplished
through a broad array of activities, including meetings, lectures, and fellowship programs, as well as the publishing of books and
the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA), North America’s leading bibliographical journal. The Society is open
to all those interested in bibliographical problems and projects, and its membership includes bibliographers, librarians, professors,
students, and collectors worldwide. Libraries are welcome as institutional members.
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
www.csu.edu.au/community/BSANZ/
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand was founded in Melbourne in February 1969 after long discussions
among bibliographers working in comparative isolation in cities of both countries. Modeled on the Bibliographical Society (UK) and
on the Bibliographical Society of America, the Society has as its province all the studies that form part of or are related to
physical bibliography: the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, typefounding, papermaking, bookbinding; palaeography and
codicology; and textual bibliography.
The Society also has an interest in the general field of reference bibliography, and has been enthusiastically involved in efforts to
document the holdings in Australia of pre-1800 books through the recently completed Australian Book Heritage Project (the
Australian arm of the international Early Imprints Project).
Bibliographical Society of Canada / La Société bibliographique du Canada
www.library.utoronto.ca/bsc/
The Bibliographical Society of Canada/La Société bibliographique du Canada is a bilingual (English/French) organization that has
as its goal the scholarly study of the history, description, and transmission of texts in all media and formats, with a primary
emphasis on Canada, and the fulfillment of this goal through the following objectives:
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia was founded in 1947 at the University in Charlottesville in order to
promote interest in books and manuscripts, maps, printing, the graphic arts, and bibliography and textual criticism. Within a few
years these interests had resulted in exhibitions, contests for student book collectors and Virginia printers, the establishment of a
small press, an international speakers series, and an active publications program. In its fifty-five years the Society has produced
about 175 separate publications--in addition to 54 issues of its Secretary's News Sheet and 54 volumes of its annual journal
Studies in Bibliography (and reprints of 20 of them).
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
www.edbibsoc.lib.ed.ac.uk
Ex Libris
www.exlibrisweb.cz/
Association of Collectors and Friends of Bookplate (Spolecnost sberatelu a pratel ex libris - SSPE) founded in 1918 has
contributed greatly to the promotion of bookplates and of bookplate collecting. The Association issues a magazine quarterly called
The Book Marking (Knizni Znacka), that being a thirty-two pages brochure.
Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies
www.fabsbooks.org
The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies is an organization with a goal of keeping member clubs informed of news,
events, publications, and activities that take place during the year. The FABS Newsletter is published twice a year to facilitate that
goal.
International Organisation of Book Towns
www.booktown.net
A Book Town is a small rural town or village in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated. Most Book Towns
have developed in villages of historic interest or of scenic beauty. The aims of this International Organisation are to:
The Book Town concept was initiated by Richard Booth in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, U.K.
Manchester Bibliographical Society
homepage.ntlworld.com/brenda.scragg/index_files/Page372.htm
Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS)
www.nobsweb.org
NOBS is an association of book collectors, dealers, librarians, and others interested in promoting the production, preservation,
collection, and sale of fine and antiquarian books, and the preservation and protection of the heritage of the printed word.
Oxford Bibliographical Society
www.oxbibsoc.org.uk
The Oxford Bibliographical Society was founded in 1922 to encourage bibliographical research. Membership of the Society is
available, on application, to all those interested in manuscripts, printed books and the arts and trades connected with them.
Members may attend all the meetings, visits as appropriate, and receive the publications for the years of their membership free.
The Philobiblon Club
www.philobiblonclub.org
The Philobiblon Club, founded in 1893, is Philadelphia’s club for Bibliophiles—Collectors, Librarians, Booksellers, Binders, Printers,
Illustrators, and anyone else who loves Books.
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
www.sharpweb.org
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing was created in 1991 to provide a global network for book
historians, who until then had usually worked in isolation. SHARP now has over 1000 members in over 20 countries, including
professors of literature, historians, librarians, publishing professionals, sociologists, bibliophiles, classicists, booksellers, art
historians, reading instructors, and independent scholars.
York Bibliographical Society
www-users.york.ac.uk/~pml1/ybs/
www.americanantiquarian.org
American Printing History Association
www.printinghistory.org
Association for Documentary Editing
etext.lib.virginia.edu/ade
Bibliographical Society
www.bibsoc.org.uk
Founded in 1892, the Bibliographical Society is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history. The
objectives of the Society are:
- to promote and encourage study and research in the fields of:
- historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography,
- the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, bookbinding and collecting;
- to hold meetings at which papers are read and discussed; to print and publish a journal and books concerned with
bibliography; to maintain a bibliographical library; from time to time to award a medal for services to bibliography - to support bibliographical research by awarding grants and bursaries.
Bibliographical Society of America
www.bibsocamer.org
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and
manuscripts as physical objects. It was organized in 1904 and incorporated in 1927 with the principal objectives of promoting
bibliographical research and issuing bibliographical publications. These objectives have been and continue to be accomplished
through a broad array of activities, including meetings, lectures, and fellowship programs, as well as the publishing of books and
the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA), North America’s leading bibliographical journal. The Society is open
to all those interested in bibliographical problems and projects, and its membership includes bibliographers, librarians, professors,
students, and collectors worldwide. Libraries are welcome as institutional members.
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
www.csu.edu.au/community/BSANZ/
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand was founded in Melbourne in February 1969 after long discussions
among bibliographers working in comparative isolation in cities of both countries. Modeled on the Bibliographical Society (UK) and
on the Bibliographical Society of America, the Society has as its province all the studies that form part of or are related to
physical bibliography: the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, typefounding, papermaking, bookbinding; palaeography and
codicology; and textual bibliography.
The Society also has an interest in the general field of reference bibliography, and has been enthusiastically involved in efforts to
document the holdings in Australia of pre-1800 books through the recently completed Australian Book Heritage Project (the
Australian arm of the international Early Imprints Project).
Bibliographical Society of Canada / La Société bibliographique du Canada
www.library.utoronto.ca/bsc/
The Bibliographical Society of Canada/La Société bibliographique du Canada is a bilingual (English/French) organization that has
as its goal the scholarly study of the history, description, and transmission of texts in all media and formats, with a primary
emphasis on Canada, and the fulfillment of this goal through the following objectives:
- To promote the study and practice of bibliography: enumerative, historical, descriptive, analytical, and textual.
- To further the study, research, and publication of book history and print culture.
- To publish bibliographies and studies of book history and print culture.
- To encourage the publication of bibliographies, critical editions, and studies of book history and print culture.
- To promote the appropriate preservation and conservation of manuscript, archival, and published materials in various
formats. - To encourage the utilization and analysis of relevant manuscript and archival sources as a foundation of bibliographical
scholarship and book history. - To promote the interdisciplinary nature of bibliography, and to foster relationships with other relevant organizations
nationally and internationally. - To conduct the Society without purpose of financial gain for its members, and to ensure that any profits or other accretions
to the Society shall be used in promoting its goal and objectives.
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia was founded in 1947 at the University in Charlottesville in order to
promote interest in books and manuscripts, maps, printing, the graphic arts, and bibliography and textual criticism. Within a few
years these interests had resulted in exhibitions, contests for student book collectors and Virginia printers, the establishment of a
small press, an international speakers series, and an active publications program. In its fifty-five years the Society has produced
about 175 separate publications--in addition to 54 issues of its Secretary's News Sheet and 54 volumes of its annual journal
Studies in Bibliography (and reprints of 20 of them).
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
www.edbibsoc.lib.ed.ac.uk
Ex Libris
www.exlibrisweb.cz/
Association of Collectors and Friends of Bookplate (Spolecnost sberatelu a pratel ex libris - SSPE) founded in 1918 has
contributed greatly to the promotion of bookplates and of bookplate collecting. The Association issues a magazine quarterly called
The Book Marking (Knizni Znacka), that being a thirty-two pages brochure.
Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies
www.fabsbooks.org
The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies is an organization with a goal of keeping member clubs informed of news,
events, publications, and activities that take place during the year. The FABS Newsletter is published twice a year to facilitate that
goal.
International Organisation of Book Towns
www.booktown.net
A Book Town is a small rural town or village in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated. Most Book Towns
have developed in villages of historic interest or of scenic beauty. The aims of this International Organisation are to:
- raise public awareness of book towns and stimulate interest by giving information via internet and by organising a
International Book Town Festival every second year; - enhance the quality of book towns by exchanging knowledge, skills and know-how between the book towns and their
individual book sellers and other businesses; - strengthen the rural economy by making propaganda for the existing book towns and by offering a medium (e-commerce)
to the book sellers, by which they can offer their books to an universal public, also or specially in the quiet season ("winter
economy"); - undertake other activities which can serve the interests of book towns and strengthen independent businesses in book
towns, e.g. stimulating the use of information technology; - help in these ways maintaining regional and national cultural heritage and to stimulate the international public to get
acquainted with it.
The Book Town concept was initiated by Richard Booth in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, U.K.
Manchester Bibliographical Society
homepage.ntlworld.com/brenda.scragg/index_files/Page372.htm
Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS)
www.nobsweb.org
NOBS is an association of book collectors, dealers, librarians, and others interested in promoting the production, preservation,
collection, and sale of fine and antiquarian books, and the preservation and protection of the heritage of the printed word.
Oxford Bibliographical Society
www.oxbibsoc.org.uk
The Oxford Bibliographical Society was founded in 1922 to encourage bibliographical research. Membership of the Society is
available, on application, to all those interested in manuscripts, printed books and the arts and trades connected with them.
Members may attend all the meetings, visits as appropriate, and receive the publications for the years of their membership free.
The Philobiblon Club
www.philobiblonclub.org
The Philobiblon Club, founded in 1893, is Philadelphia’s club for Bibliophiles—Collectors, Librarians, Booksellers, Binders, Printers,
Illustrators, and anyone else who loves Books.
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
www.sharpweb.org
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing was created in 1991 to provide a global network for book
historians, who until then had usually worked in isolation. SHARP now has over 1000 members in over 20 countries, including
professors of literature, historians, librarians, publishing professionals, sociologists, bibliophiles, classicists, booksellers, art
historians, reading instructors, and independent scholars.
York Bibliographical Society
www-users.york.ac.uk/~pml1/ybs/
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