pillage, punishment, and
provenance: books as
victims of crime |
The Fourth Annual Caxton Club / Newberry
Library Symposium on the Book —
April 4, 2009
Co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America
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The Society announces
the winners of the 2009
william l. mitchell
prize
Sharon M. Harris
(English Department, University of
Connecticut, Storrs)
&
Thomas Lockwood
(English Department, University of Washington,
Seattle)
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The Society announces the publication of
Bookcloth in England and America, 1823-50,
by Andrea Krupp
(Oak Knoll/The British Library/The Bibliographical Society of America, 2008 |
This volume offers a new edition of Andrea Krupp's groundbreaking article, which first appeared in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and includes an expanded "Catalogue of Bookcloth Grains," with illustrations in a larger format and, for the first time, in color. Sue Allen has written the preface for the book.
Ms. Krupp's three-part essay, with several illustrations, covers the introduction of bookcloth and the early decades of its use, discusses bookcloth grain nomenclature and concludes with detailed observations on several cloth grain patterns. The book also contains three appendices, including an information-dense table that lists each grain pattern with date range and frequency and a Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century Bookcloth Grains, include images of the various grains, reproduced at actual size. The number of catalogue entries has been expanded from 222 to 248 in this edition with swatches printed in color.
Co-published with the The British Library and Oak Knoll Press.
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Form and Function
of
Images in Books
BSA/BSC
Panel at SHARP
Toronto
23-27 June 2009 |
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The Bibliographical Society
of America in partnership with the Bibliographical Society of
Canada will be proposing a panel at the 17th annual conference
of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and
Publishing, which will meet in Toronto, June 23-27, 2009.
The panel is being organized by James N. Green (Library Company
of Philadelphia), Caroline Duroselle-Melish (Houghton Library,
Harvard University) and David McKnight (Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, University of Pennsylvania).
The proposed theme of the BSA/BSC panel at SHARP will be "form
and function of images in books." We seek proposals for papers
from scholars in all disciplines. A number of subjects could be
explored including the making, copying, and printing of
illustrations, their relation to text, conventional images
versus innovative text,the 'eye-witness' image, portraits in
books, and the use of printed images in manuscripts. We are
especially interested in studies making use of material
bibliography in their approach to images.
Please send abstracts (150 words maximum) and one-paragraph
resumes to each of following by November 7, 2008:
Caroline Duroselle-Melish (cmelish@fas.harvard.edu)
James N. Green (jgreen@librarycompany.org)
and
David McKnight (dmcknigh@pobox.upenn.edu)
Please note that speakers
and chairs must be members of BSA or BSC and SHARP upon
registering for the conference or they cannot be included in the
program. For further information about SHARP, please visit
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