Caxton Club

A Chicago-based collection of—to put it simply—book lovers. We're authors, artists, binders, collectors, conservators, designers, editors, librarians—and fun!

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The Caxton Club is proud to be a sponsor of the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. https://t.co/F5yguDI4KO

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It's that time! Submissions are open for the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Please share!

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2022-2023 Caxton Club Grants Awarded

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Announcing the seventh annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! https://t.co/BqGujBT09t via @lithub

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The Caxton Club is pleased to be a sponsor of the 2023 Honey & Wax Prize. Click through for information about the prize and how to apply.

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Stargazing (Laura Davidson, 1996) is a unique artist’s book, consisting of a painted wooden box in the shape of a reliquary, with hinged door, containing a book of painted boards with four half-round inner leaves with astronomical and astrological imagery. https://t.co/YgHf6tfXkt

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An Essay on Brewing, with a View of Establishing The Principles of the Art published in 1758 is the first practical guide that applies the principles of early chemistry to malting and brewing. The author was in Hampstead, then a village north of London. https://t.co/dBzcBdOxeN

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The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered (Evanston: Hesterberg Press, 2008) tells the story of the blocks made by Thomas Bewick and their journey to Chicago in 1942. Documents all known collections in 2008 with color photographs of Bewick and his toolbox. https://t.co/OUq5u1yhMm

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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://t.co/qbQeoxjTf4

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You’re invited: Book Launch for Divine Days (https://t.co/801kTy90qB), originally published in 1992 and recently reissued. 2/15/23 5:30 PM ULCC, 65 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago. Advance registration required by 5:30 PM, 2/13. Click here (https://t.co/ase0jZ0VsP) to register.

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GRANT RECIPIENT: The Bibliographical Society of America Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers 2023

Caxtonian, Nora Epstein (University of St Andrews, UK), “Visual Commonplacing: The Transmission and Reception of Printed Devotional Images in Reformed England.”

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GRANT RECIPIENT: T. Kimball Brooker/Caxton Club Scholarship 2023

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.

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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.
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The collector writes: In Section 27 of this map directly west of the “E.P .Mack” homestead property is the farmstead of “M[ichael] & C[hristian] Daleiden”. Christian Daleiden is my great, great, great grandfather on my family’s maternal side. https://t.co/YFrk8leIZv

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An unpublished manuscript, written by Woodward, a Georgian caricaturist and poet. While Woodward’s role in the London caricature trade has faded, his name was more recognizable during the 18th century than the artist/engravers who etched his many designs. https://t.co/uqVcXngcCj

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Now through June 15, 2023 you can get thought-provoking, independently published books for up to 90% off with code AD1996.

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The Caxton Club’s Chicago by the Book (https://t.co/LnOG3nKW13) is on sale for $11.00.

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Cook books written by Naomi Ann Donnelley, wife of R. R. Donnelley, after the Chicago Fire to keep the presses of Church, Goodman & Donnelley (est. 1864; later R.R. Donnelly and Sons) running after it was devastated by the fire. https://t.co/Cc67yPNVZp

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From Caxtonians' Collections: Zuan-cho were design idea books for the Japanese kimono trade published in the first half of the 20th century. This rare example was created by a gifted young artist who later turned to more traditional painting. https://t.co/MS5tmdGtsr

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From Caxtonians' Collections: This rare book contains more than 50 hand-drawn maps, and 54 restaurants, profiled in some detail and provided with a (not entirely reliable) map. By the collector's count only three are still in business today. https://t.co/f7mfSfCU04