{"id":1337,"date":"2013-06-25T04:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2013-06-25T04:45:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:45:26","slug":"bookish-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/06\/25\/bookish-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookish visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/APHA.ABC_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1338\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/APHA.ABC_-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/APHA.ABC_-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/APHA.ABC_-1024x787.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Sunday we hosted representatives from two regional bibliophile groups&#8211;the American Printing History Association, New England Chapter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.printinghistory.org\/chapters\/new-england.php\">APHA NE<\/a>) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcocl.org\/\">American Book Collectors of Children&#8217;s Books<\/a> (ABC&#8217;s)&#8211;and printed a keepsake for them to take back to their members.\u00a0 From left to right, Phil Weimerskirch (APHA), Alice Beckwith (APHA), John Renjilian (APHA\/ABC), Caroline Hardy (ABC), and Nancy Rossi (Trinity guest and new member of APHA).\u00a0 Along with a tour of the stacks, we presented an array of fine press books from our impressive collection, as well as some of our &#8220;high spots,&#8221; like the first edition of the King James Bible (1611), which is open on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The keepsake was printed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordprints.com\/\">Hartford Prints!<\/a>, our new best friend for letterpress things, and features the Watkinson logo bearing one of the basic tenets of our field, &#8220;Book openeth book.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/Keepsake1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1340\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/Keepsake1-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/Keepsake1-255x300.jpg 255w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/Keepsake1-872x1024.jpg 872w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/06\/Keepsake1.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday we hosted representatives from two regional bibliophile groups&#8211;the American Printing History Association, New England Chapter (APHA NE) and the American Book Collectors of Children&#8217;s Books (ABC&#8217;s)&#8211;and printed a keepsake for them to take back to their members.\u00a0 From left to right, Phil Weimerskirch (APHA), Alice Beckwith (APHA), John Renjilian (APHA\/ABC), Caroline Hardy (ABC), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}