Around the Library Table: An Evening with the Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection, with Laura Michelson
Channel: Special Collections & Archives, UIowa Libraries
Date: 12/11/2020

Iowa Bibliophiles is a group for book lovers and enthusiasts of all kinds. Join us each month as we bring in a guest speaker to talk about some aspect of book collecting, book history, book making, and more. 

On November 11, 2020, former Olson Graduate Assistant Laura Michelson joined us to talk about Cedar Rapids printer Luther Brewer who collected Huntiana in the 1920s and Leigh Hunt, the Romantic era English writer and critic best known as a friend to “the famous.” Through this essential collection—one of the most complete of a single Romantic era figure in the world— we catch sight of the relationship between books and their readers, collectors, and researchers. This collection has played a major role in the lives of centuries of bibliophiles.

Typically these monthly meetings are in person, but 2020 has allowed us to expand into the virtual world, recording these talks on Zoom and posting them here on YouTube to enjoy. 

Find out more about Iowa Bibliophiles and the list of upcoming speakers on our website: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/about/iabibliophiles/

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