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Binding the Bard
International Competition

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Binding the Bard: Durham's First International Bookbinding Competition! Help us answer the question: How would modern design binders bind a Shakespeare First Folio?

Competition entries are to reach Durham University by 15 February 2025

Competition prizes include:
- First Place - £3,000 cash prize and a £5,000 commission to bind a facsimile of the Shakespeare First Folio for accession into Durham University Special Collections at Palace Green Library
- Second Place - £2,000
- Third Place - £1,000 - Newcomer (Awarded to the outstanding submission from an individual who started binding within the last 3 years or has never entered a bookbinding competition before) - £500
- Popular Vote (Announced at the culmination of the 6 month exhibition) - £250

For more information about the competition particulars including complete rules and entry guidelines, please visit our website at Durham University.

*UK Fine Press Book Fair
Examination Halls, Oxford University, 75-81 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG, UK
3rd-4th May 2025

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Every two years the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) in the UK organises the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair with the assistance of the UK team of the Fine Press Book Association. The Fair runs over a Saturday and Sunday with around 100 stands for presses, dealers, suppliers, and related organisations.

Further details are available here.

Bind 2025 - Preserving the past | Crafting the Future Auckland, New Zealand
12th-14th September 2025

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We are thrilled to announce that the next Australasian conference will be held at the Auckland University of Technology in September, 2025. It is the first time the conference has been held in New Zealand since 2014 and will follow the proud tradition of having international and local speakers, exciting workshops, trade tables, site visits and much more.

Underlying everything will be the opportunity to network with fellow bookbinders, book artists, printers, conservators, librarians, calligraphers and anyone else with an interest in preserving the past and crafting the future.

To be held at the Auckland University

Keep checking back for updates and start planning!

*Guild of Book Workers, Standards of Excellence Conference
Iowa City, Iowa
9th-11th October 2025

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To be held at the Graduate Hotel, Iowa City

Details to follow

*Codex X - CODEX Foundation International Biennial Book Art Fair & Symposium
The Oakland Marriott, in Oakland, California.
7th-10th February 2026

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The Codex Foundation are gathering together a congress of the world's finest private presses, book artisans, artists, curators, collectors and scholars in the spirit of an Old West rendezvous for the fifth biennial Codex International Book Fair and Symposium.

Further information to follow

J. Hewit & Sons will have a stand at the event(s) marked '*'. If you would like us to bring specific items for you to purchase, please let us know at least 4 weeks in advance of the event.
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