Big Book Weekend Coming up in St. Pete’s and Tampa, Florida
First: The Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association is holding its annual bookfair at the Colliseum in St. Pete’s, starting tomorrow, with more than 110 National & International Dealers exhibiting their wares.
Second: Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and University of Tampa Library will be hosting a free lecture by noted collector and scholar Mark Samuels Lasner who will talk about his experience “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”; Saturday, March 13, 2010, noon-12:45 at the MacDonald Kelce Library, University of Tampa ( stay tuned for The Biblio File interview!).
The talk will complement "Facing the Late Victorians" an exhibit of items from Lasner’s collection on display at the fantastical
Royal Pavilion-like
Brighton, England
H. B. Plant Museum, a building constructed in….the late Victorian era.
Also, in the Macdonald Kelce Library, two more free exhibits for booklovers: “The Bookbindings of Alice C. Morse,” prepared by Mindell Dubansky of the Thomas Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and originally exhibited at the Grolier Club, plus a display of Victorian Publisher’s Bindings from the Tampa Book Arts Studio Library Collections.
