The Saint Catherine Foundation charity Christmas cards for 2012 feature an icon from the important Saint Catherine’s Monastery collection and a black-and-white image of Sinai by the celebrated Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas (1858-1944). The cards are produced on heavy semi-gloss paper with a matt interior writing surface. The matching envelopes have a self- sealing flap. Thanks to the sponsorship of the EFG Group, all proceeds from Christmas card sales benefit the Saint Catherine Foundation and its work. The cards cost £1.50 each in our online shop.

Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad, head of the Ligatus Research Unit at the University of the Arts London, will present Unfinished Business: Incomplete Bindings Made for the Book Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, on Tuesday, 30th October at 4:00 pm. More information and registration instructions are available here. Prof. Pickwoad will deliver the same lecture on Monday, 5th November at 5:30 pm at Harvard College's Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, and on Tuesday, 13th November at 6:00 pm at the Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, in New York City.