\nNow see also the <\/em>2026 RGME Colloquium at The Grolier Club: Report]<\/a><\/p>\n
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Front Entrance of The Grolier Club. Photograph (4 April 2008) [cropped] by participant\/team W. C. Minor as part of the Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan project, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license., via https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Grolier_Club.jpg.<\/p><\/div>For the Year 2026, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence chooses the Theme of “Transformations and Renewals”<\/a> for exploration across its activities and projects.<\/p>\n Our first hybrid event of the year brings the RGME to The Grolier Club of the City of New York, in central Manhattan, for a curated set of hybrid events<\/strong> on Wednesday 11 February 2026<\/strong>. In keeping with the RGME’s dedication to accessibility for events reaching a wider audience, these events will be available both in person and online. For registration for the different events and functionalities (in person or online), see below.<\/p>\n With registration beforehand (see below), the day’s events comprise:<\/p>\n We gather a team of specialists, collectors, and curators of books \u2014 all Grolier Club Members and mostly RGME Associates\u2014 to examine, reflect on, and celebrate selected treasures of the Grolier Club Library<\/a>. On offer: reports and conversations about research discoveries, work-in-progress, and the joys of experiencing the materials directly and also sharing their stories. Join us!<\/p>\n 2024 Beletsky logo of the Grolier Club of the City of New York.<\/p><\/div>\n For information about the scope of the event, its Participants, its two parts as Workshop<\/strong> and Roundtable<\/strong>, and Registration<\/strong> for each part, see below. Both parts are hybrid, through the RGME for the Workshop and through the Grolier Club for the Roundtable.<\/p>\n The Program for both the afternoon Workshop<\/strong> and early-evening Roundtable<\/strong> can now be downloaded as a 4-page<\/p>\n 2026 RGME-Grolier Colloquium Poster 1. Set in RGME Bembino.<\/p><\/div>\n Program Booklet, set in RGME Bembino.<\/p>\n Both Posters for this bipartite event can be downloaded:<\/p>\n We offer the 64-page illustrated Colloquium Booklet as a guide and souvenir for the event. You may download it here, in two formats according with your printing and viewing preferences.<\/p>\n Speakers with comments at the afternoon workshop over original materials and\/or with lightning talks at the early-evening roundtable:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We look forward to welcoming you!<\/p>\n The Grolier Club, View of Exhibition “Paper Jane” (to 14 February 2025). Image: Grolier Club.<\/p><\/div>\n We give information for Open to the public both in-person and online Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>, a Princeton-based 501(c)(3) educational organization, will visit the Grolier Club for an in-person\/hybrid \u2018Roundtable\u2019. In lightning talks, several Club members will discuss a curated selection of books, manuscripts, and prints on the RGME\u2019s 2026 organizational theme of \u201cTransformations and Renewals. Open to the public, this event will be live-streamed and will offer book-signings for Club member guides who have recently published works discussed.<\/p>\n Public roundtable on “Transformations and Renewals” at 6:00-7:30 pm EST (GMT-4)<\/strong> 1) Virtual<\/strong> 2) In-Person 2026 RGME-Grolier Colloquium Poster 2. Set in RGME Bembino.<\/p><\/div>\n Open to the public online; As a prelude to the Roundtable on “Transformations and Renewals”<\/strong>,\u00a0Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong> and Grolier Club Members <\/strong>will have a hybrid “Show-Off-and-Tell\u2019 Workshop<\/strong> to examine, up close, the original materials (as book, manuscript, print) to be discussed further at the evening Roundtable<\/strong> in lightning talks. The curated selections comprise favorites from the Grolier Club Library which have given rise to detailed study and discoveries for them and their contexts.<\/p>\n Like our pair of hybrid workshops recently over original manuscript and printed materials in Special Collections at the Princeton University Library, held by our Associate Eric White at the 2025 RGME Colloquium on Fragments<\/a>, this hybrid workshop will take place over original materials at the Grolier Club, guided by the Librarian Jamie Cumby<\/a> (see also Jamie Cumby<\/a>).<\/p>\n We gather to share experiences of delight and wonder, to celebrate the joys of learning from original materials at the Club and their relatives in other collections, especially in combination, to learn more about the rich range of the Grolier Club Library, and to give thanks for responsible access to it and for its curators. Open to the public online and to an invited audience in person (limited seating), this event will be accessible widely by interactive Zoom Meeting.<\/p>\n Speakers (in order of presentation): Hybrid Workshop at 2:30-4:30 pm EST (GMT-4)<\/strong> 1) ONLINE (Open to the public)<\/strong><\/p>\n 2) IN-PERSON (Space is limited, by invitation)<\/strong><\/p>\n Willhelm Meinhold, Sidona the Sourceress (Kelmscott Press, 1893), Opening of Book I, Chapter 1, “Of the Education of Sidonia”. Photograph courtesy of Mark Samuels Lasner.<\/p><\/div>\n *******************<\/p>\n Learn about the RGME, its mission, and its activities<\/p>\n Visit our Social Media:<\/p>\n Join the Friends of the RGME<\/a>. (There is no charge.) All are welcome. The Friends hold special meetings, competitions with prizes, and other activities, recognizing the wide range of interests among our audience, scholarly and more.<\/p>\n Please make a Donation in Funds or in Kind<\/strong> for our nonprofit educational corporation powered principally by volunteers. Your donations and contributions are welcome, and can go a long way. They may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law.<\/p>\n We look forward to welcoming you to the special visit to the Grolier Club, whether you can attend in person or online!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Front of The Grolier Club. Photograph (4 April 2008) [cropped] by participant\/team W. C. 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\n2:30\u20134:30 pm EST (GMT-4)<\/strong>
\n1) online open to the public<\/strong>
\n2) in person privately with limited seating<\/strong>, open for Grolier Club Members and RGME invited guests<\/li>\n
\n6:00\u20137:30 pm EST
\nopen to the public<\/strong>
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Program<\/h2>\n
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Posters<\/h2>\n
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Colloquium Booklet<\/h2>\n
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Speakers and Panelists<\/h2>\n
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\n\u201c ‘Show-Off-and Tell’: A Curated Selection from the Grolier Club Library”<\/li>\n
\n\u201c \u2018That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. . .\u2019
\nLost Stories of the Making of the Bremer Presse\u2019s 1934 (but 1935) Vesalian Icones anatomicae<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
\n“Blockbooks Dismembered”
\nNote<\/em>:
\nWatch for the coming exhibition at the Morgan later this year:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cA Medieval Missal Fragment from the Otto F. Ege Collection and its Provenance\u201d
\nNote<\/em>:
\n\u201cBreak-Up Books and Make-Up Books: Encountering and Reconstituting the Legacy of Otto F. Ege and Other Bibliocasts\u201d (See 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments<\/a>)<\/li>\n
\n“Secrets in Secrets in Secrets”
\nNote<\/em>:
\nReid Byers, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books<\/em> (Oak Knoll Press and Le Club Fortsas, 2024)<\/li>\n
\n\u201cWilliam Gowans, New York Bookman and Poe Family Boarder\u201d
\nNote:<\/em>
\nRichard Kopley, Edgar Allan Poe: A Life<\/a> (2024)<\/li>\n
\n\u201cA Gift from William Morris to the Grolier Club\u201d
\nNote<\/em>:
\nWilhelm Meinhold, Sidona the Sorceress<\/em> (Kelmscott Press, 1893), translated by “Francesca Speranza” \/ Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde, Lady Wilde\u2014a novel drawn from the life of the Pomeranian noblewoman Sidonia von Borcke (1548\u20131620), accused of witchcraft and executed.<\/li>\n
\n\u201cFrom \u2018By a Lady\u2019 to Global Superstar: Curating 250 Years of Jane Austen\u201d
\nNote<\/em>:
\nGrolier Club Exhibition. “Paper Jane”<\/a> (to 14 February 2026)
\nOnline exhibition.\u00a0Exhibition Gallery<\/a>
\nOnline curators\u2019 tour.\u00a0Tour of Paper Jane<\/a>
\nCatalogue.\u00a0Catalogue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPresider\/Moderator for Roundtable<\/h3>\n
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Book-Signings at Roundtable for Grolier Authors’ Publications<\/h3>\n
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Registration for the 2 Hybrid Events<\/h1>\n
\nI. the evening Roundtable first,
\nII. then the afternoon Workshop.<\/em><\/p>\nI. Hybrid Roundtable in the Grolier Club Exhibition Hall
\n6:00 to 7:30 pm<\/strong> EST (GMT-4)<\/h2>\n
\nBook-signings available<\/em><\/p>\nRegistration through the Grolier Club<\/h3>\n
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Overview<\/h3>\n
Registration for the Roundtable
\nVirtual or In-Person Attendance<\/h3>\n
\n[although the registration portal lists the time as “6:00-7:00”<\/em>]
\nAll are welcome to attend in both functionalities.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“Transformations and Renewals” Roundtable (Virtual)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>“Transformations and Renewals” Roundtable (In-Person)<\/a>
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II. Hybrid “Show-Off-and-Tell” Workshop upstairs
\npreceding the Roundtable
\n2:30 to 4:30 pm EST (GMT-4)
\nwith Break at 3:15\u20133:30 pm<\/h2>\n
\nIn-person seats limited, for Grolier Members and invited RGME Guests<\/em><\/p>\nRegistration through the RGME<\/h3>\n
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Overview<\/h3>\n
\nJamie Elizabeth Cumby, Beppy Landrum Owen, John T. McQuillen, Mildred Budny, Reid Byers, Richard Kopley, and Mark Samuels Lasner<\/p>\nRegistration for the “Show-Off-and-Tell” Workshop
\nVirtual or In-Person Attendance<\/h3>\n
\nAll are welcome to attend online; space is limited in person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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