Precarious: From Manuscript to Print in Early America (Zamorano Lecture)
David Hall discusses the challenges of writing and publishing in colonial America, when authors sent documents to England for publication, only to see...
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The Huntington Library’s collection includes printed books from the 15th century to the present. Among its treasures are a copy of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible and the first folio edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays, published in 1623. In lectures and interviews curators and visiting scholars discuss topics such as book collecting, printing, and the formation of great libraries.
Sam and Jamie: ‘No Theory Please, We’re British’
The famous relationship between lexicographer Samuel Johnson and his friend and biographer, James Boswell, is discussed in a lecture by Paul Ruxin. A ...
Johnson Agonistes: Portraying Samuel Johnson
By the time James Boswell published his monumental biography of his friend Samuel Johnson in 1791, the latter’s life had been more fully documented th...
Samuel Johnson and His Famous Dictionary
Loren Rothschild, a noted collector of the works of Samuel Johnson, talks about the life and work of the great 18th-century man of letters who compile...
What is a Book? (Zamorano Lecture)
How significant are books for the circulation of written texts? The question has become more urgent in the age of digital media, and yet historically...