To further its goals, the club holds monthly (September through June) dinner meetings and luncheons, sponsors bibliophile events (often in collaboration with the Newberry Library and with other regional institutions) and exhibitions, and publishes books, exhibition catalogs, and a monthly journal, The Caxtonian.

[4] The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by a group of fifteen bibliophiles to support the publication of fine books in the style of the then-new Arts and Crafts Movement.

[12] The Club awards scholarships and grants to students and researchers in the book arts.

In the course of its history, the Caxton Club has published formal publications and other printed pieces.

These include The French Bookbinders of the Eighteenth Century,[32] The Cowboy in American Literature by J. Frank Dobie, [33] Tales for Bibliophiles.