News from the Director of Research - August 2024

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Conferences and Lectures
Welcoming Brett Rushforth to the HLQ

August 2024 - The Research Division is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the 2024-25 cohort of Long-Term Fellows and the launch of our new season of academic programming. You can see the full schedule of academic programs on our Academic Conferences and Lectures page. As always, these events are open to the public with advance registration for a nominal fee of $35, an increase over the $25 fee the Research Division has charged since the 1990s. (Inflation catches up with all of us.)

An oversized text foldout is shown in an open book. — Richard Bull (1721–1805), extra-illustrated copy of *A Collection of the Loose Pieces Printed at Strawberry-Hill* [between 1769 and 1801].
| The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

We have an exciting line-up of conferences and lectures in store, kicking off in September with “Extra Extra! The Material History of the Visually Altered Book.” Join scholars in the field as they discuss extra-illustration, a once-popular practice in which readers altered their books by adding visual elements such as engravings.

The Huntington Library is the leading repository for extra-illustrated books in the United States, if not the world. There are over 1,000 examples in its collections, including Richard Bull’s iconic 36-volume extra-illustrated copy of James Granger’s A Biographical History of England.or subscribe.

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