The Old Books Association will have its 43rd annual conference on the history of the books trade in London from November 13–14, 2022. The conference’s theme is “Family Business: The Continuity of Generations in the Trade of Books Since the Fifteenth Century.”
The conference will go through the benefits and drawbacks of family projects in the seventeenth century, the strains of French binding in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and printed volumes from the sixteenth century in the British Library.
The Old Books Association launched a new initiative, which is the Friends of Archaeological Books Association, which they say will work to bridge the gap between the members and the associated professions in addition to “the uniquely universal universities, and the books of books and enthusiasts who simply love the history and letter of the book. ”
Over the past five centuries, the book trade in Europe has been shaped in part by family tensions.
In the beginning of the modern era, the home housing has provided an environment for generations of family members to take over decisive roles in the organization and practices of book trade. Additionally, networks created by foreign families entered the trading system and came together to form organisations like the London stationery company.
A symposium on how families have participated in the European book trade since the 15th century
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