The Bibliographical Society

["D.J.Shaw" <D.J.Shaw@ukc.ac.uk>]

The web pages of the Bibliographical Society (of London)
have just been updated, giving the programme for the winter lecture series
(last Tuesday of each month).
The web address is:

   http://www.ukc.ac.uk/secl/bibsoc/

A  list of the speakers and titles is appended at the foot of this
message.

David Shaw
(BibSoc honorary webmaster)

Dr D.J. Shaw                                      Phone: 01227-764000 ext 7629
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University of Kent at Canterbury               Email: work: D.J.Shaw@ukc.ac.uk
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     The Bibliographical Society

     Lectures 1998 - 1999

  Tuesday 17 November 1998
     Nigel Ramsay
     Around 1620: a turning point in the history of English libraries. 

     A discussion of certain trends in the history of private and
     institutional library formation in the later sixteenth and early
     seventeenth centuries.

  Tuesday 15 December 1998
     Richard Ovenden

     Lord William Howard as a collector of manuscripts

     An account of the formation, growth and dispersal of the library of
     Lord William Howard of Naworth (1563-1640). 

  Tuesday 19 January 1999
     Julian Pooley
     The Nichols Archive project.

     An examination of documents created and accumulated by a remarkable
     family of printers and antiquaries between the birth of John Nichols
     (1745-1826) and the death of his grandson, John Gough Nichols (1806-1873). 

  Tuesday 16 February 1999
     Bill Bell
     Colonial emigres and exiles

     Scottish readers in the Empire, 1800-1880. 

  Tuesday 16 March 1999
     Jacqueline Glomski
     'Incunabula typographiae': seventeenth-century views on early
     printing.

     An investigation of attitudes towards incunabula and
     sixteenth-century imprints, and notions of rarity, at a time when the invention of printing was
     beginning to be explored. 

  Tuesday 20 April 1999
     Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
     David Shaw
     'Operum omnium longe maximum et laboriosissimum': fifty years at work
     on the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue.

     Started in 1943, completed in 1998, the Catalogue has been another
     mammoth project for the Society. The Editor-in-Chief tells some of
     the inside stories and discusses the scope and potential usefulness
     of the Catalogue.

  Tuesday 18 May 1999
     The Homee Randeria Lecture 
     Carmen Blacker and Mirjam Foot
     Collector, dealer and forger: a fragment of nineteenth-century
     binding history.

     This tells the story of the obsession of a collector, the dealer who
     supplied him with the treasures he desired, and the villain who took advantage of
     one - or possibly both?