News
Monday, April 21, 2008
Harcourt & Acme Bookbinding
team up
to produce a BIG book
for the Orlando Magic
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sam Ellenport to Speak
at the
New Hampshire Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association meeting
The Harcourt Bindery, a division of Acme Bookbinding, will be represented by Sam Ellenport at the New Hampshire Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association meeting on April 16th. Sam will be the guest speaker at the Association’s spring meeting. His presentation will be “Bookbinding Design: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs.” The talk will range over 6 centuries, showing how structural changes in bookbinding led to the creation of designed “art” bindings of the 20th century. Sam’s romp through bookbinding history will be accented by a series of colorful slides from medieval books to work recently done at The Harcourt Bindery.
A binding on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (2007)
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Sam Ellenport to Speak
at the
Boston Antiques Weekend show
The Harcourt Bindery, a division of Acme Bookbinding Company, will be exhibiting at the Boston Antiques Weekend show. This show will combine antiquarian booksellers, antiques dealers and textile dealers under one roof at the Seaport World Trade Center.
Sam Ellenport will be one of three featured speakers talking about books. His seminar will be held on Sunday, April 13 at 11:30am. The topic is Bookbinding: The Economics of Desire. Sam will show images of books from the 15th to the 21st centuries, explaining how structure changed along with design. All seminar talks are open to anyone purchasing admission to the show.
Details can be found at www.bostonantiquesweekend.com.
A recent Harcourt Binding
