FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Our programme for 2021 and our publications were badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. We expected in 2022 in 2023 to get back to holding some meetings in person rather than always relying on virtual meetings on the internet, but this did not happen.

Nevertheless, talks by Zoom have been well attended and we hope to arrange more of these in 2024. Also in April or May 2024 we need to hold a double AGM, either by Zoom or in person.

Nothing has been easy because both the Secretary and Treasurer have sustained health issues, which has greatly reduced their work for the Society.

It was possible to run auctions earlier in 2023 and you can now view and bid on truly bumper offering in Auction 99. This rolls our usual October and December auctions into a single sale. It was uploaded on 14 October, giving you six weeks until the deadline of 25 November 2023.

Since Covid we have had no gathering at our London venue. Perhaps we can at some point devise a compelling reason for members to gather in person at: Lower Meeting Room, Wesley's Chapel, 49 City Road, London EC1Y 1AU.
This is located in the City of London, between Old Street (Northern Line) and Moorgate tube stations. We must leave the Wesley centre by 3.50pm. Click to see how to get there.


AUTUMN 2018 ISSUE OF THE BOOKPLATE JOURNAL
This journal is running very late and has not yet been issued to members. We have three editors working on this journal, on Spring 2019 and Autumn 2019, so there is hope of catching up the backlog eventually. The closure of museums and libraries made it impossible to get images needed for certain articles.


Simon Brett “THIRTY MORE YEARS” Bookplates 1990-2020
Published by The Reading Room Press, 190 copies set in Perpetua and printed on an Albion on Zerkall paper. Case-bound in quarter cloth with a patterned paper incorporating the plate deemed, by mutual accord, to be the best from these thirty more years. Of the sixty-eight bookplates cut by Simon Brett since 1990, thirty-four are reproduced, all but two printed from the wood. The trees and sailing ship pictorial for printer Miles Wigfield was an inevitable selection. The two previous books about Simon's ex-libris (Klaus Rodel, Frederikshavn, 1982 and Fleece Press 1989) were by the late Brian North Lee, that doyen of the genre. Here, at the instigation of the printer, the text is by the artist himself. Stop Press: A proof of plate no.150, Bryan Welch Et in Arcadia Ego, printed and signed by the artist, will be tipped in to the first 100 copies ordered. Orders to Dr Miles Wigfield, Coneygar Lodge, Quenington. Glos. GL7 5BZ (T: 01285 750662 E: miles.wigfield AT btopenworld.com ).


NEWS AND EVENTS ARCHIVE
Out of date reports and some obituary notices are now on a separate webpage.

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